‘Tenet’ Behind-The-Scenes Featurette Shows How Nolan Pulled Off The Movie’s Biggest Stunts…in Reverse
As Warner Bros. forges ahead with the divisive U.S. theatrical rollout ofTenet, the studio is attempting to take our minds off the dangers surrounding releasing a movie in theaters amid an ongoing pandemic with a ritzy behind-the-scenes featurette. The new nine-minute clip goes into great detail about how “cinematic” and “game-changing” theChristopher Nolanespionage movie is, from its incredible stunts to its even more incredible scope. Watch theTenetbehind-the-scenes featurette below.
Tenet Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
It’s hard enough to pull off a massive big-budget blockbuster with mainly practical effects and expensive on-location shoots. It’s even more difficult trying to do all thatin reverse. Nolan and his time-bending method of storytelling takes on another layer withTenetwith the introduction of the ability of “inversion,” in which the “entropy of an object or a person can be reversed,” as the director describes in the featurette. Nolan being Nolan, the director and his crew often had to invent new ways of doing stunts, from choreographing fight sequences backwards, to rigging up all kinds of complicated devices that make it look like objects can fly backwards.
“It’s very much cinematic, it’s something that you have to see onscreen to fully engage with,” Nolan added, which feels like a pointed statement about Warner Bros.' insistence on releasingTenetin theaters,despite concerns about opening theaterswhile the pandemic is still in full swing.
The early reactions toTenethave been somewhat mixedbased on the critics who were able to see it outside of the United States before the film arrives in many international markets next week. /Film’s Jason Gorber joined the mixed reactions, writingin his review,“In the end,Tenetfeels like the most Nolan-y of Nolan’s own films, amping the many quirks of this remarkable filmmaker’s visual, aural, and temporal fetishes up to 11. The result is messily entertaining, a film that feels both boisterous and bloated in equal measure.”
Tenetis written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It starsJohn David Washington,Robert Pattinson,Elizabeth Debicki,Dimple Kapadia,Michael Caine, andKenneth Branagh.Tenetis currently slated to hit theaters in the U.S. onSeptember 3, 2020with early access screenings starting onAugust 31.
