TENET Pitch Meeting

Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Christopher Nolan’s TENET.

Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors working today, and one of the few filmmakers who still makes high budget original movies. With movies like Inception, Dunkirk, Interstellar and more under his belt, he’s firmly established himself as one of the most visionary directors of our generation. That being said, TENET is super confusing.

TENET is awesome to look at, but raises a lot of questions. Like what are the exact implications of moving backwards through time? Why is the music so much louder than the vocal tracks? What is going on? Why does The Protagonist spend an hour going from conversation to conversation? Who are those army guys shooting at? This movie makes sense, right?

To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to TENET! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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[msoldate]

Movie Producer: “what’s the movie about?”
Christopher Nolan: “You wouldn’t understand... I need 270 million dollars”
Movie Producer: “Ok”

[aravindvarma]

They can't hate the movie if they don't understand it.
- Christopher Nolan

[JaYoeNation]

Barely an inconvenience... super easy.... inverted hook

[shivasive]

Watching this movie was like doing a trust fall with nobody else in the room and falling really hard on the ceiling.

[AP-Design]

“Well, he lives in the world, so...he doesn’t want it to end.” Profound character development.

[lpphillyfan]

This helped me understand Tenet more. Not even joking.

[Winggoose]

Inception: Time goes slow
Interstellar: Time goes fast
TENET: Time goes weird

[thefat]

"tell me more about the protagonist"
"no"
My favourite part of any pitch meeting. 🤣

[danielle]

Dont forget "we have to go talk to Michael Caine now" because this is a Christopher Nolan movie after all

[wesleyoldham-cartoonsandtv]

"He lives in the world, so he doesn't want it to end."
Such depth to a character!

[TheHockeyGuy]

Just finished watching this. The pitch meeting makes a lot more sense than the movie did.

[tishya]

Props to this guy for not understanding physics while writing Fast and Furious instalments and now years later, explaining time inversion. Immensely inspirational journey.

[mahdieldaw]

True fact: Nolan pitched this to his future self, who was travelling back in time.

[ahmedsharaf]

those dislikes are actually inverted likes sent back in time

[kashifs.]

“So who are they shooting at exactly?”
“Ahh”

That’s what I was thinking through that whole scene!

[richardwhyde]

The degree of difficulty on display here in trying to explain the inexplicable while also being funny and entertaining is off the charts good. I imagine Ryan's script would have taken a lot of work to get this tight. A master-class.

[IrishMatty]

I love Chris Nolan’s here’s my mind during Tenet: “Hmmm interesting don’t quite understand but let’s see where we end she’s important he loves why....oh, does that was great

[jameshart]

When he turns on the music and I can't hear what he's saying, I instantly felt 100% better about not understanding this movie.

[abbajabba]

I like the consistency to the "pitch meeting" cinematic universe that the nose bleed at the end adds, here. During The stranger things pitch meeting, the director said he gets nose bleeds when uses his brain too hard.

[GoddessPallasAthena]

OMG!! I LOVED where he put on the LOUD music to explain something important. That was pretty much my entire movie experience. A lot of complicated stuff going on that's explained through conversations that I COULD NOT HEAR! I turned to my roommate to ask "Hey, so am I going deaf, or is the dialog hard to hear? Is it must me?" "No, not just you."