The wait Christopher Nolan
After the historic success ofOppenheimerand his long promotional campaign on the occasion of the award ceremonies, Christopher Nolan left the great winner of the 2024 Oscars 7 statuettes, of which 2 were personal, Oscar for best film AND Oscar for best director. The director now has the right to take a well-deserved vacation. But among the studios and the public, the impatience for his future project is already palpable.
According to the sources of Varietythe director ofStart and of Principle could now write a new scenario or return to an adaptation project to which he was linked in the late 2000s.
The remake of a cult series on the big screen?
There are rumors in Hollywood that Christopher Nolan could resume the project of a film adaptation of the British series The prisonera spy thriller mixed with science fiction that made an impression during its first broadcast between 1967 and 1968. It starred Patrick McGoohan, as “Number six“.
A British secret agent suddenly resigns from his post and heads to his London flat in his Lotus Seven. He is followed and, as he packs his bags to leave town, an anesthetic gas is released through his lock. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a strange place, the “Village”. The place is eccentric and inhabited by a community of villagers, all dressed in similar colorful clothes. He identifies them with a numbered badge on their chest. The man is now number 6. He refutes this denomination and declares himself free against all odds…
Christopher Nolan was attached to this adaptation project in 2009, but it didn’t come to fruition after AMC aired a miniseries remake that same year starring Jim Caviezel as Number Six. Could Christopher Nolan revive this project, which features many of the themes and concepts dear to him?
Oppenheimer it was an adaptation of the biography Robert Oppenheimer: Triumph and Tragedy of a Genius by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. And this adaptation exercise was a huge success. But Christopher Nolan, outside of the Batman franchise, also wrote his own scenes, alone or with his brother Jonathan. It is therefore difficult to know whether he will lean towards a new adaptation or an original creation…
Source: Cine Serie
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