Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

[Insidious Von]

To be released next July.

Here is the first teaser for the film. A WWII event that the Americans played no part in, it will be interesting to see how it is received at the North American box-office.

 

[james t kirk]

I like his work and will make a point of catching it.

Gotta love those old British helmets. Basically useless.

 

[Insidious Von]

From the information I'm getting this will be Nolan's first R-rated film.

And the billing of the cast is misleading. The top billed actors are Ken Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and last year Best Supporting Actor winner Mark Raylance. But the film will be carried by an ensemble of younger British and French actors, most of whom are making their film debut.

While we wait we have Peaky Blinders and the forthcoming Taboo to keep us interested.

 

[Keebler Elf]

This will bomb. Which is unfortunate because it looks very interesting to me. It will be another Passchendaele, Hyena Road, or (god forbid) Dieppe.

With the rare exception (Blackhawk Down, Saving Private Ryan), war movies generally don't do well. Add to that a British-focused war movie and it will bomb (at least in North America).

I'm still looking forward to it though.

 

[mandrill]

And also it portrays a negative event - an evacuation following a defeat. The Brits will love it, but it has nothing for the US audience.

The helmets were designed in WW 1 to protect guys cowering in trenches from overhead shrapnel. Shrapnel was the usual WW 1 artillery round, not high explosive. Therefore, the helmets are wide and shallow.

 

[Insidious Von]

With a film like this, the box-office isn't everything. If Nolan can reach the lofty heights of Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Paths of Glory, it will burnish his reputation as a great director.

Casablanca didn't set the box-office on fire when it was first released, but does anyone remember the other films that came out in January of 1943?

Leave the box-office to Michael Bay, Nolan has another calling.

Trivia: (the actor who created Batman's The Joker is in this scene)

 

[Keebler Elf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_helmet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_III_helmet

 

[frankcastle]

I saw suicide squad last night and the Dunkirk trailer played..... I felt chills and goose bumps when the guys put their heads down as the bomb starts to whistle.

Unbelievable amount of respect for people who have gone to war.

I saw a trailer for what looks like an interesting movie..... it is based on a true store of a man who refuses to carry a gun to war and wins the right to do so. His comrades call him a coward but during the battle he carries man after wounded man out of the battle and gives them first aid. Don't know the title but seems pretty cool in an emotional kind of way.

 

[tribunus]

This will bomb.

I share your sentiments. War movies are never money makers to begin with. Plus, the factors mentioned above (British-centric, about an Allied failure) will likely prevent it from finding an audience in North America.

 

[Insidious Von]

I saw a trailer for what looks like an interesting movie..... it is based on a true store of a man who refuses to carry a gun to war and wins the right to do so. His comrades call him a coward but during the battle he carries man after wounded man out of the battle and gives them first aid. Don't know the title but seems pretty cool in an emotional kind of way.

Frankcastle did you recognize the actors, I'd like to put that on my watch list.

Dunkirk will have resonance outside North America, even if it doesn't do well in the USA it will make it's money back. For Nolan, making a big splash at the box-office isn't his first priority.

And it's not the prime consideration for Martin Scorsese either. He's finally made his passion project, Silence, he's been sitting on the completed script for 15 years. It could become his penultimate masterpiece and it probably won't do well at the box-office either. Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver (SW: The Force Awakens, Girls) make up the English cast - the rest are all Japanese.

 

[Insidious Von]

Latest news.

FX will not broadcast Taboo before January 2017. It should give Dunkirk a nice bump.

The show is written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders) with Tom Hardy and his father Chips Hardy. Produced by Ridley Scott.