Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

cowboyBuilder · 22-09-2015 04:39PM #1

So,
Seems Christopher Nolans new project has been announced http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1, No plot details yet, but I'd imagine
Micheal Caine will star and Hans Zimmer will be doing the music

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But just curious looking at imdb, in the trivia section, seems any crap can be published :

Matthew McConaughey turned down the opportunity of reprising his role as Cooper in this follow up to Interstellar, so the script was rewritten to utilize the time shifts and Clint Eastwood was cast.

This is not the message board either, its the trivia section, should be true at least.

Sad Professor · 22-09-2015 05:18PM

Everything on IMDb, even the filmographies, is user-edited. Submissions are “checked” for accuracy, but not properly. There’s all sorts of rubbish on there.

humanji · 22-09-2015 05:19PM

Anyone can add trivia to IMDB, afaik.

I doubt any real information will come about this until the middle of next year and even then it'll only be tiny snippets.

The Black Oil · 22-09-2015 06:36PM

The only thing that's known is the date, afaik.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=45341

cowboyBuilder · 22-09-2015 09:07PM

I would love to have the discipline to just ignore all marketing for this and walk in to the cinema not knowing the plot like I did for The Prestige - greatest cinematic experience ever.

DoYouEvenLift · 22-09-2015 09:13PM

Is his brother working on this with him as well? I hope so. The two of them together are a killer team.

Also, this better be another 70mm IMAX spectacle.

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

So,
Seems Christopher Nolans new project has been announced http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1, No plot details yet, but I'd imagine
[B¡]Micheal Caine will star and Hans Zimmer will be doing the music [/b]:).

But just curious looking at imdb, in the trivia section, seems any crap can be published :

This is not the message board either, its the trivia section, should be true at least.

Definitely did not see that coming!

Bacchus · 22-09-2015 09:13PM

So all Nolan has to do now is announce he is making a movie and the hype-train begins

nix · 23-09-2015 01:41AM

Bacchus wrote: »

So all Nolan has to do now is announce he is making a movie and the hype-train begins

Choo choooooo! :pac:

Sphynxinatron · 12-10-2015 03:44AM

Hope the climax in this one is better resolved. Man I was loving Interstellar but that thing about "love transcending space and time" actually influencing the plot really deminished the movie for me. It felt so un-Nolan ._.

JP Liz V1 · 12-10-2015 09:46PM

I would love if he did another film in same vein as Insomnia or Memento and got Joaquin Phoenix to star

gloobag · 12-10-2015 10:54PM

Apparently he's recently had meetings about a trilogy based on Akira. Probably with Leo DiCaprio involved in some way, as it's his production company that are making it.

JP Liz V1 · 28-12-2015 11:57PM

His next film is Dunkirk set during the evacuation of the French town of Dunkirk during World War II with Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance to join the cast http://variety.com/2015/film/news/chistopher-nolan-mark-rylance-movie-1201662561/

warpdrive · 29-12-2015 12:08AM

Interesting choice. Glad to see the mention of the plans to film and produce it for 70mm IMAX, Nolan fans who travelled to the UK to see his previous movies in the format will be doing that again I'm sure

humanji · 29-12-2015 12:19AM

I kind of hope it's a straight up film about Dunkirk and doesn't involve sci-fi fanciness. I like Nolan as a director, but feel that his writing is subpar when he tries to force over the top "look how smart I am" twists into them, and it takes away from the finished product.

Simon2015 · 29-12-2015 12:52AM

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

ricero · 29-12-2015 12:31PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

Im actually lookig forward to it. Want to how nolan does a historical war film

Mickeroo · 29-12-2015 12:37PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

Well he's never done ww2 movie tbf, this will be a bit of a departure for him if it's just a straight up war film.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 12:54PM

Dunkirk is an interesting choice. Should be decent at least.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 01:10PM

So many CGI ships and boats and planes....:(

pixelburp · 29-12-2015 01:21PM

It's a fascinating part of ww2, and it'd certainly be hard to twist it into anything overtly jingoistic or flag-waving: it was the endpoint of a complete military disaster after all, with only the rallying of the various civilian & merchant ships saving the day, and most of the British army.

At this stage Nolan has tried his hands at so many genres and tones, it'd be interesting to see a straight-up historical tale. Lord knows he can command the kind of budget that'd enable him to film Dunkirk with the actual cast of thousands you'd need; anyone else would likely be forced into using CGI.

Sad Professor · 29-12-2015 01:31PM

Apart from Joe Wright’s Atonement, isn’t the evacuation of Dunkirk relatively virgin territory for WW2 movies, at least non-propaganda ones? Most Americans probably aren’t very familiar with it or have a simplistic understanding of what happened on the European Front pre-American involvement. It could be very interesting as well being a great showcase of old-school cinematic spectacle.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 01:35PM

pixelburp wrote: »

It's a fascinating part of ww2, and it'd certainly be hard to twist it into anything overtly jingoistic or flag-waving: it was the endpoint of a complete military disaster after all, with only the rallying of the various civilian & merchant ships saving the day, and most of the British army.

At this stage Nolan has tried his hands at so many genres and tones, it'd be interesting to see a straight-up historical tale. Lord knows he can command the kind of budget that'd enable him to film Dunkirk with the actual cast of thousands you'd need; anyone else would likely be forced into using CGI.

Sad Professor wrote: »

Apart from Joe Wright’s Atonement, isn’t the evacuation of Dunkirk relatively virgin territory for WW2 movies, at least non-propaganda ones? Most Americans probably aren’t very familiar with it or have a simplistic understanding of what happened on the European Front pre-American involvement. It could be very interesting as well being a great showcase of old-school cinematic spectacle.

Which is why the budget for this film will not be as big as Nolan would ideally like or indeed need to do it "for real".

There is no chance of the average hayseed trooping out to see this, no heroic Americans and no romantic angle even.

Sad Professor · 29-12-2015 01:42PM

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 01:56PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Ah yes that forgotten band of brothers who were caught behind enemy lines, as their ensemble played at Calais and Nieuport.

Starring Denzel Washington as Jeff "jazz hands" Murphy and Idris Elba as Trombone Toots-Tim.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 07:42PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Probably throw in a few American volunteer pilots flying for the RAF.

TerrorFirmer · 29-12-2015 07:53PM

The scope is endless, it could be a film about the immediate evacuation itself, or it could also cover several days prior to that point.

It's a topic that's barely been covered before, even though it's importance is beyond words.

Without Dunkirk, there would have been no Battle of Britain, and no D-Day. It was a tremendous achievement.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 08:16PM

It would be a genuine insult if an American pops up in this film, but Nolan would be perfectly aware of that so I doubt he'd pander.

TerrorFirmer · 29-12-2015 08:22PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It would be a genuine insult if an American pops up in this film, but Nolan would be perfectly aware of that so I doubt he'd pander.

That's a bit sensationalist, as previously pointed out there were Americans flying with the RAF prior to American involvement in the war.

degrassinoel · 29-12-2015 08:35PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

That's a bit sensationalist, as previously pointed out there were Americans flying with the RAF prior to American involvement in the war.

Afaik there were as many Irish pilots in the RAF as there were Americans, which wasnt that many, 10 or so.. and the Polish had the biggest non-national numbers in it's ranks, they (The Polish) also held the highest kill ratio for enemy planes.

I'm looking forward to this though, in churchill's words the events leading to Dunkirk were a "colossal military disaster" - He himself expected that only 20 -30,000 would be rescued, in actual fact, the number rescued was in excess of 338,000 including french forces.

I hope that Nolan shows that the remainder of the french army held those beaches until the bitter end - most of whom were either killed or captured

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 08:46PM

Canadians would be more plausible. Americans formed their own Eagle Squadrons in the RAF but not until the summer in 1940.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 09:23PM

degrassinoel wrote: »

Afaik there were as many Irish pilots in the RAF as there were Americans, which wasnt that many, 10 or so.. and the Polish had the biggest non-national numbers in it's ranks, they (The Polish) also held the highest kill ratio for enemy planes.

I'm looking forward to this though, in churchill's words the events leading to Dunkirk were a "colossal military disaster" - He himself expected that only 20 -30,000 would be rescued, in actual fact, the number rescued was in excess of 338,000 including french forces.

I hope that Nolan shows that the remainder of the french army held those beaches until the bitter end - most of whom were either killed or captured

Fair point, the Poles contribution to the Allied effort is usually understated by popular media. Still I expect Nolan's work to be more historically accurate than say U-571.

degrassinoel · 29-12-2015 10:42PM

We'll be grand so long as Bon Jovi stays at home for this one

ziedth · 29-12-2015 10:57PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It would be a genuine insult if an American pops up in this film, but Nolan would be perfectly aware of that so I doubt he'd pander.

You only have to look at U-571 to see how far they can push the historical liberties. I think Jon Bon-Jovi is a far cry from the Actual sailors who captured the Inigma machine.

Anyway, Dunkirk like as mentioned above is a very underused story from WWII. Probably because the lead up to it was such a disaster. Nolan on board too gets me very excited.

degrassinoel · 30-12-2015 12:03AM

British sailors too, also the actual U571 was another story worthy of a film, it was captured by the british and used to surface near german ships where it would surprise attack them

JohnFalstaff · 30-12-2015 12:20AM

degrassinoel wrote: »

British sailors too, also the actual U571 was another story worthy of a film, it was captured by the british and used to surface near german ships where it would surprise attack them

The actual U571 was never captured, it was sunk in 1944 off the coast of Ireland. Prior to this the only surprise attacks she undertook were against Allied freighters.

degrassinoel · 30-12-2015 12:30AM

i'll have to find the article i was reading on it earlier, but yeah looks like you're right

lol i honestly cant find the article i was reading - maybe it was bs - but it would still have made a better story than U571

I did see some nifty pictures of 42 surrendered uboats moored right here in Ireland though

And yeah, now i've found it again, and i derped it it was U-570 - not 571 - they renamed it the HMS Graph

eviltimeban · 05-01-2016 03:06PM

Should be interesting. I don't see why people are worried about Christopher Nolan, and Englishman, focusing on Americans in this case. So far Tom Hardy has been cast but only in a supporting role - he's apparently looking for unknowns to play the leads.

Duggy747 · 05-01-2016 03:21PM

I hope he leaves "Love" at the door, killed Interstellar for me.

Frank Bullitt · 05-01-2016 11:48PM

How the hell is he going to put time travel or dreams within dreams into this one then?

Ipso · 06-01-2016 01:06AM

I wonder if Michael Caine will have a big role!

eviltimeban · 06-01-2016 10:06AM

Gintonious wrote: »

How the hell is he going to put time travel or dreams within dreams into this one then?

He'll find a way.

Duggy747 · 06-01-2016 12:45PM

Ipso wrote: »

I wonder if Michael Caine will have a big role!

Probably will though it'll be hard to hear him with Zimmer's score drowning his dialogue out. :pac:

cowboyBuilder · 06-01-2016 02:31PM

hmmm not sure I like this theme with Nolan as director !!

Well , we'll see, hopefully I won't expect the greatest film of all time when I do see it .. I expected too much with Interstellar so it took me a 2nd viewing to really love it.

Falthyron · 12-03-2016 10:34AM

Ever considerate of the general public's desires, Christopher Nolan has offered to create a moment of sheer joy and delight for the world in his new film, Dunkirk; he is going to kill Harry Styles.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/harry-styles-one-direction-christopher-nolan-dunkirk-1201728153/

Seriously though, this is a very smart move by Nolan. I reckon he is pandering to studio executives by putting someone in the film that will bring in hundreds of thousands of women (propping up the coffers) so that he can do whatever he wants with the movie (in terms of direction, story, format, and style).

cowboyBuilder · 13-05-2016 10:09AM

First poster

FortuneChip · 13-05-2016 10:41AM

"Hello, is the start of the Dunkirk hype bandwagon? I'd like to get on please"

cowboyBuilder · 13-05-2016 10:42AM

FortuneChip wrote: »

"Hello, is the start of the Dunkirk hype bandwagon? I'd like to get on please"

All aboard....

pixelburp · 13-05-2016 10:59AM

Has that poster confirmed, cos tbh it looks like something a fan might rattle up with some public domain ww2 photos; a new Nolan film would be more likely to have his name much larger, and with something a little more enigmatic than a generic war photo, but that's just me

cowboyBuilder · 13-05-2016 11:02AM

pixelburp wrote: »

Has that poster confirmed, cos tbh it looks like something a fan might rattle up with some public domain ww2 photos; a new Nolan film would be more likely to have his name much larger, and with something a little more enigmatic than a generic war photo, but that's just me

Good point actually, I got it from imdB but of course that is user editable ...

jimmy_b · 13-05-2016 11:20AM

Im looking forward to this movie, big fan of christopher nolan movies, good cast gonna be in it by the sounds of it too

cowboyBuilder · 13-05-2016 12:30PM

It will be interesting how it pans out, most of his movies are surreal ... lets see how he deals with a historical drama ..

Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

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