Christopher Nolan, a hit series
It’s been a while since then Christopher Nolan it is recognized all over the world. Thanks to his successes, the director can easily set up his projects as he wishes and has proved it once again with Oppenheimer. Indeed, he managed to convince the Universal Pictures studio to entrust him with at least 100 million dollars to direct a three-hour biopic on the “father of the atomic bomb”.
Christopher Nolan: Why are his films so complicated? He finally answers.
A project that, on paper, might not seem very exciting. But with Christopher Nolan at the helm, audiences showed up in droves, with over $400 million in revenue picked up after only a few days in theaters. However, it hasn’t always been so easy for the director to impose his ideas.
Like the vast majority of directors, Christopher Nolan had to prove himself first before affecting the major Hollywood studios. He made his first “small” first feature film in England with Following (1998), before starting his American adventure. It was there that he realized it I remember (2000) which, due to its reverse film concept, has become a cult.
Steven Soderbergh fan I remember
Made for just under $10 million, I remember took a while to hit theaters. Christopher Nolan said that while no cinema wanted his film, it was The Grand Rex who had projected first I remember.
I remember it continued to do well at the box office. But that doesn’t mean the studios welcomed him with open arms. For this it was necessary a little help from Steven Soderbergh. The American director was already recognized in Hollywood after he won, among other things, the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival with Sex, lies and videos (1989) as well as Best Director Oscar for Traffic (2001).
In an interview given to RollingStoneSteven Soderbergh explained yes intervened personally to allow Christopher Nolan to do it meet members of Warner Bros. He loved I remembercalling it “an instant fucking classic”.
A decisive intervention with Warner Bros.
Christopher Nolan’s agent then called Soderbergh a few months after the film’s release to talk to him from the scenario ofinsomnia (2002) including Warner Bros. had the rights. The Briton wanted to direct the film. But impossible for him to meet the studio reps because of one of the bosses he had hated I remember.
I called this leader and said, “Arrange a meeting. You must agree to meet him.” He then replied that he didn’t like him (Memento). To which I added, “But did you like the staging? He said he found it ‘brilliantly done’. So I insisted he have this meeting. That’s all I did. I knew Chris well enough to know that if it was the room, he would have gotten the job.
Thanks to the insistence of Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan was then able to meet the members of Warner Bros. The studio thus entrusted him the making ofinsomniaremake of the Norwegian film by Erik Skjoldbjærg released in 1997. With it, Nolan has offered an excellent thriller that plays on the senses and paranoia of a police officer who is investigating a killer who is raging in Alaska.
The film stars Al Pacino, Hilary Swank and Robin Williams (in one of his very rare dark roles). After reporting to Warner Bros. over $110 million in worldwide box office receipts with insomnia, This was therefore the beginning of a long collaboration between Christopher Nolan and the studio. The director then realized eight films with Warner Bros. including the trilogy The dark Knight (2005, 2008 and 2012), Start (2010) or even Interstellar (2014.
Source: Cine Serie
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