Christopher Nolan says Inception is “the biggest challenge” he’s taken on

by Liam on January 14, 2010 · 2 comments

inception trailer The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan recently spoke to The L.A Times about his next film, Inception, and spoke about the scale of the film. With a $200+ million budget I wasn’t expecting it to be a low-key affair, but it seems it will be something of a monster:

“It’s something that we had been talking about on and off for seven or eight years,” Thomas said. “Coming off of the ‘The Dark Knight,’ the only thing we really knew is that we wanted to do something more personal. It seemed like the right time to do this. The fact that it’s really just an enormous movie — that wasn’t ever really a factor in the decision. This story lends itself to a movie of this size.”

A key part of the premise is corporate espionage by way of dream invasion, but motives and even reality are slippery in a film that toys with perception as its travels through time and space. The crew covered a lot of territory too, filming in six countries.

“This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point,” said Nolan, who may return to Gotham City for his next feature. “We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

When the director of films such as Memento, Insomnia and The Dark Knight says his next movie was the biggest challenge he’s taken on you know you’re in for a treat.

Inception will be released in July and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine.

  • Steevoger

    But think they somehow should push the marketing for the mainstream audience a bit more…all this secrecy and weird trailers wont get them into cinema :/

  • http://www.tarjeta-r4-ds.es/ buy r4i

    I think what Nolan means is that “The Dark Knight” had this very complex like story with layers on top of layers, yet it was a simple blockbuster movie. So I think he is just trying to illustrate that with this movie but adding more layers. I think left to his own devices he will deliver yet another movie that makes him the true successor to Hitchcock's Suspense crown.