With cinemas shut down all over the world for months, all eyes have turned to July, when two major studio releases are set to debut: Disney's Mulan (bumped from its original March release), and Director Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated sci-fi thriller, Tenet. It looks like Warner Bros. is boldly sticking with the latter film's planned July 17 release date, despite all the pandemic-fueled uncertainty. The studio just dropped a new trailer, which made its debut in an unusual medium: playing every top of the hour in the popular battle royale game Fortnite.
We know very little about the film, not even the usual carefully crafted official premise, although the film's title is a palindrome, meaning it reads the same backward and forward—a subtle clue. Nolan has kept any additional details (including character names) tightly under wraps. It stars John David Washington (Ballers, BlacKkKlansman) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight franchise, The Lighthouse). The film also features Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express), Michael Caine (Inception, Interstellar), Clémence Poésy (Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Elizabeth Debicki (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Martin Donovan (Ant-Man), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-ass), and Indian film stars Dimple Kapadia and Denzil Smith.
The first trailer dropped last December. As I wrote at the time, "Fresh off his Oscar-nominated World War II drama, Dunkirk, Nolan seems to be returning to his high-concept sci-fi roots with Tenet." That trailer opened with a shot of two men rappelling up a building, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics. "We all believe we'd run into the burning building," a voiceover tells us. "But until we feel that heat, we can never know."
Here's what we know so far. A man (Washington) undergoes what appears to be a grueling trial to join an elite international team of spies, ending with a choice: give up his colleagues, or die. He chooses death and wakes up in a hospital to learn he has passed the test. The man's new assignment: prevent World War III and save the world—not from nuclear holocaust, but from "something worse." He's given one code word, "tenet," to open the necessary doors.
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Robert Pattinson and John David Washington co-star.
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Himesh Patel (Yesterday) is part of the team.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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This does not look like a very fair test.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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"All I have for you is a word: tenet."YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Elizabeth Debicki plays a mysterious woman.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Clémence Poésy plays a scientist.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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What is this strange artifact that literally seems to eat bullets?YouTube/Warner Bros.
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"You're not shooting the bullet—you're catching it."YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Kenneth Branagh brings some dire warnings.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Maybe not the best time to switch cars.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Roadside shootout.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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Washington's character gets "detained."YouTube/Warner Bros.
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A showdown in a packed concert hall.YouTube/Warner Bros.
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A dramatic plane crash is part of the plan.YouTube/Warner Bros.
If you were hoping for a little more information, count those hopes dashed. This latest trailer has plenty of action and excitement as well as lots of new footage—including a lot more Pattinson—but not much in the way of revelatory details. "He can communicate with the future," we hear one man say, presumably referring to Washington's character. But it's not time travel, exactly—more like "inversion."
We do learn a little bit more about the strange artifact briefly glimpsed in the first trailer. When Washington shoots at it, the bullets are absorbed. "You're not shooting the bullet—you're catching it," Poésy's scientist tells him. There are people in the future who need "tenet," we are told, and it looks like they might be saved "in the here and now" by reversing the flow of time. But there are bound to be some mind-boggling consequences to doing that. All in all, it looks very Christopher Nolan, and here's hoping enough theaters reopen in time for its release.
Tenet is still scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, 2020—coronavirus willing.
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