The release of Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film Tenet has been pushed indefinitely, Warner Bros. announced. The film was scheduled for release on August 12, and was one of the first major Hollywood films to be out in US theatres after the global shutdown.
This is the third time the film’s release is being pushed—it was originally scheduled to release on July 17 and then was pushed to July 31. Later, Warner Bros. announced the film will finally reach theatres on August 12.
Warner Bros. said in a statement, “We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for ‘Tenet,’ Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing feature. Our goals throughout this process have been to ensure the highest odds of success for our films while also being ready to support our theater partners with new content as soon as they could safely reopen.”
The international espionage drama stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh and Dimple Kapadia.
Speaking about it to Entertainment Weekly, Nolan said: “This film is not a time-travel film. It deals with time and the different ways in which time can function. Not to get into a physics lesson, but inversion is this idea of material that has had its entropy inverted, so it’s running backwards through time, relative to us.”
The 49-year-old filmmaker said the project, which he also produces alongside his frequent collaborator Emma Thomas, has been mounted on a scale that is "certainly the biggest in terms of international reach".
"We shot in seven countries, all over the place, with a massive cast and huge set pieces. There's no question, it's the most ambitious film we've made," Nolan added.
