Robert Pattinson and Tenet Featured in Fotogramas (Spain)
The July issue of Fotogramas Spain has a Tenet exclusive featuring interviews with Rob and John David Washington as well as some info on the film. Below is the full pdf together with the translation of Rob’s interview:
ROBERT PATTINSON AGAINST THE CLOCK AND THE TOPICS
The Londoner, who knew he was going to be the new Batman on the first day of filming “Tenet”, tells us (something) about his character and the challenges narratives of Nolan’s films.
We just saw him locked up next to Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse (R. Eggers, 2019), a tour de force in which it shows, in case it was still necessary, that you have known how to use the trampoline from The Twilight Saga to become one of the most interesting and judicious actors
when choosing roles from recent years. To a list in the one highlighted by cult authors – from David Cronenberg to the Safdie brothers, passing by Claire Denis, James Gray or Ciro Guerra–, Robert Pattinson (London, England, 1986) now adds Christopher Nolan, uniting commerciality with
a contrasted personal look. The actor tells (something) to Fotogramas on Tenet with an eye to its future close as new Masked Crusader in The Batman.
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Warner Bros Delays #Tenet Release to 12 August 2020
Rumours surfaced this morning that the release date for Tenet would be pushed back to August given the current spikes in COVID-19 cases in the US. Variety is now reporting and has confirmed that the release in August is no longer a rumour:
Warner Bros. has once again pushed back the release date for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.†It’s the second delay for the highly anticipated blockbuster that has been primed to reignite moviegoing after lengthy cinema closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The movie, which cost $200 million, was initially slated to arrive in theaters on July 17, but was later postponed until July 31. Now, it will be released on Aug. 12 — unless cases of the virus continue to rapidly spread across the country and the studio no longer deems it safe to unveil a major movie at that time.
“Warner Bros. is committed to bringing ‘Tenet’ to audiences in theaters, on the big screen, when exhibitors are ready and public health officials say it’s time,†a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement. “In this moment what we need to be is flexible, and we are not treating this as a traditional movie release. We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy.â€
To read the full article click on Variety link above.
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Sneak Peek at Robert Pattinson in The Making of Tenet
I09 exclusively shared a sneak peek into The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan’s Quantum Cold War book by James Mottram. The book is out on the same day as the film (31 July 2020) and offers “insights into all aspects of Tenets creation including an “in-depth commentary from Christopher Nolan himself and a range of other key collaborators.†Insight Editions have provided us with the press material which you can click on below (UHQ).
The first spread is the start of chapter two and talks a bit about casting non-traditional leads, which, we now know, ended up being John David Washington and Robert Pattinson.
Spread two is from about 70 pages past that and has storyboards, and the on-set photos, of some kind of action scene that involves a fire truck and two other massive vehicles. Spread three has some text explaining that a scene where Washington and Pattinson’s characters jump out of a building was shot practically, with the actual actors. They were on safety rigs and only did part of it but, still, it’s them.
Here are cropped versions of the new photos containing Rob:
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Robert Pattinson Talks about first meeting with Christopher Nolan
Rob spoke to EW about his first meeting with Christopher Nolan – hmmm wonder what chocolates they were. From EW:
“I was in London at the beginning of last year and had kind of absolutely nothing going,” Pattinson told EW in the course of an interview for this month’s Tenet cover story. “So, I was panicking about that when out of nowhere there was a call to say, ‘Do you want to come back to LA?’ [I] went to meet him, and we kind of talked for three hours, and I have no idea what I’m meeting for, what the subject is. I was actually going back through his filmography to kind of try and predict what sort of genre he would go into next. And then, after hours of talking, he finally kind said in the last two minutes, ‘So, I’ve been writing this thing and would you like to come back and read it?'”
Even so, Pattinson was concerned that he might have messed up his chances of working with Nolan, having committed what he feared was a chocolate-based faux pas.
“There was this pack of chocolates on the table,” the actor said. “I had a massive blood sugar drop by the end of this conversation. I thought I was going to pass out because we’d been talking so much. I was trying to concentrate so much. Finally, I asked for one of the chocolates and he immediately ended the meeting. I was like, oh my god, I f—ed it up.”
Christopher Nolan then had this to say when talking about Rob’s character “Neil” in Tenet:
Rob plays a character called Neil in the film — or we think may be called Neil,” said Nolan. “You never really quite know what’s going on with these identities. But he’s the very definition of a fantastic supporting character. He’s a very important character to this film, but he’s very much in support of John David’s character.”
Christopher Nolan sends message to CineEurope Conference Attendees about Tenet
We all know that Christopher Nolan is a huge advocate for people to return to cinemas to watch films, and more importantly Tenet. Deadline reported that the following message was provided to the attendees at the CineEurope conference held online to discuss distribution and exhibition in the post COVID-19 world. This is what Chris had to say:
We’re in the final throes of it. I don’t want to say too much about it other than we’re extraordinarily excited about what we’ve been able to do with this material. I think of all the films that I’ve made, this is perhaps the one that is most designed for the audience experience, the big screen experience. This is a film whose image and sound really needs to be enjoyed in your theaters on the big screen and we’re very very excited for you to see what it is we’ve done. We’ve made big films in the past, but this is a film whose global reach and level of action is beyond anything we’ve ever attempted before. I think we only would have been able to pull off this film with the level of experience we’ve had doing action films in the past. The movie has an incredible ensemble cast led by John David Washington who gives the most extraordinary and iconic performance as the protagonist at the heart of Tenet and I cannot wait for you guys to see what he’s done with his character. I’m very much looking forward to sharing the film with you. I’m going to get back to finishing it right now and I look forward to your reaction.â€
