If there’s one director whose work Quentin Tarantino particularly admires, it’s Christopher Nolan. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian (via FilmStarts ), the Pulp Fiction director discussed the old-school cinematic approach of his colleague, who, despite the ambitions of his projects, is definitely known for wanting to avoid the use of CGI as much as possible. He said:
Christopher Nolan would be as good a filmmaker as he is now, just as strong if he was making movies in 1975 or if he was making movies in 1965. I would love to see Chris Nolan’s version of The Battle of the Bulge. That would be really great.
Battle of the Bulge is a 1965 film directed by Ken Anakin, starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson. The feature film is a fictionalized account of the bloodiest battle of the Second World War, which is also the last attempt of the German army to defeat the Allies. Known as the Battle of the Bulge, it began in December 1944, lasted more than a month, and cost tens of thousands of lives…
Although the film received mixed reviews at the time, Tarantino now thinks Nolan could have done a better job.
And if in 2014 the project was not very concrete, today it has changed a lot, because in addition to knowing about remakes with the thriller Insomnia – a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, which he shot in 2002 with Robin Williams. And Al Pacino Christopher Nolan He has since directed the war film Dunkirk in 2017 and also discussed the subject of World War II with Oppenheimer. So maybe he’ll follow his esteemed colleague’s advice: keep the business…
Meanwhile, Oppenheimer is still playing at a theater near you.
Source: Allocine
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