Robert Pattinson Tenet won’t be bound for Cannes
Robert Pattinson’s Tenet was hotly gossiped about being the first Christopher Nolan film to premiere at Cannes. As it stands, that’s all it could have been – gossip. Cannes originally postponed from May to hopefully start at the end of June beginning of July 2020, but Cannes have now acknowledged that that postponement is no longer an option. This is what The Hollywood Reporter had to say:
The further postponement of the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival leaves some of this year’s most hotly anticipated studio and independent films in limbo. Features that were expected to make their world premiere on the Cannes Croisette — including Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta and Pixar’s animated feature Soul — may now have to find another red carpet opportunity or skip the festival circuit altogether.
Cannes occupies a central position in the calendar for tentpole titles, which use the festival’s glitz and glamor, as well as its convenient congregation of international film journalists, to kick off press junkets and global rollouts. For independent films, a Cannes premiere can be a make-or-break moment, a key launchpad for movies that otherwise would never get noticed, much less released.
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Tenet
Christopher Nolan hasn’t brought a single film to Cannes (he attended in 2018 to introduce a new 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey), so beyond gossip, it’s unknown whether his latest would have even been in contention. But with Tenet’s summer release date of July 17, had Warner Bros. opted for a festival bow, Cannes would have been the logical choice, making it one of the festival’s marquee premieres. Little is known about the project, save for its all-star cast of Robert Pattinson, John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Debicki and — of course — Michael Caine, and a plot about a time-traveling secret agent tasked with preventing World War III. Tenet will likely have a typically Nolan out-of-festival debut.
