Michael Caine Finds Out This Week If He’s In Nolan’s Inception
MTVhave been speaking toSir Michael Caineand the conversation came around, with fanboy-driven inevitability, toChristopher Nolan’s sci-fi engimaInception. It seems that MTV asked Caine if he had a part in the movie, and back came the reply:
I think so too.
Here’s everything else that Caine said on the matter:
I could well be, yes. I don’t think [Nolan]’s going to make a picture without me. I will know this week if I’m going to be in it.
That last comment is the key one, I think. Either Caine has a meeting with Nolan this week or, more likely I feel, he’ll find out if the schedule and/or payment requirements his people have been negotiating with Warners Bros. will be accepted. Only scheduling issues can blow this now, I’d guess.
Nolan certainly seems to like repeat players, his own little rep theatre of recurring faces. Does this lend any credence to therumorsabout Marion Cotillard, who we already know has been cast inInception, having a slink-suited turn as Catwoman in her future? Well… not yet anyway. Might just be worth an early bet if you may find a bookie willing to take it.
Most details ofInceptionare still shrouded in big-budget mystery, but the odd little tidbit bubbles up. It has been recently described to me as “Christopher Nolan’sEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, but that’s still pretty vague and, possibly, part extrapolation.
If you know Nolan’s debut featureFollowing, you’ll be familair with his enjoyment of up-ended and scattered narrative structures.Inceptionseems likely to follow a similar strategy, if only because of the “dream logic” stories about the mind typically observe. Great – another nine months of arguments with my students about plot holes and inconsistencies that we just can’t agree exist or not.
