Sir Christopher Nolan will wait 'at least' three years before next movie
Sir Christopher Nolan has confirmed it will be "at least" three years before his next movie and he "hit the limits" of his stamina making The Odyssey.
Sir Christopher Nolan "hit the limits" of his stamina making The Odyssey.
The 55-year-old filmmaker has admitted it will be "at least" three years before he released another movie after pushing himself writing, directing and producing his star-studded adaptation of Homer's epic - which stars the likes of Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya - though he admitted he always knew it would be "difficult".
After it was noted there is a typical three-year gap between the release of his films, with Interstellar being released in 2014, Dunkirk in 2017, Tenet in 2020 and Oppenheimer in 2023, Christopher confirmed that there would be "at least" that amount of time before his next movie.
He added on Today: "I definitely hit the limits of my own stamina and everybody’s stamina, I think.
"I mean, it’s The Odyssey, of course it should be difficult. We’re not doing the job right making a film of The Odyssey if it doesn’t seem difficult.”
Christopher broke a record and fulfilled a long-held dream by shooting The Odyssey entirely on IMAX 70 millimeter film.
He said: “I went to IMAX, and I said, ‘Look, if ever we are going to fulfill this dream of shooting the entire movie that way, this is the one. This is The Odyssey.”
Meanwhile, the director recently admitted it is "really wonderful" to see how popular his older movies have continued to be.
In the wake of Interstellar's recent resurgence, he told The Hindustan Times: “It really is an amazing thing, a fantastic thing, when something you’ve made years before continues to have a life.
‘And people tell you they’ve got something from it, a new generation of filmmakers who possibly was too young to see it when it first came out, or in some cases wasn’t even born when it first came out.
“That’s how long I’ve been doing this now. It’s really wonderful to see your work stand the test of time. There are so many different variables when you release a film, and I’m very aware of this right now, because I make films for a cinema audience.
“And so the film, for me, like The Odyssey, is not finished until it goes to the audience, and the audience sort of tells me what it is. And there are so many variables that go into that process, in terms of how a film is distributed, who it reaches, and when it reaches those people.
“So it’s been really, really gratifying to see Interstellar continue to have a life for a new generation of filmmakers. It’s really wonderful.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Christopher was asked about how he ensures he doesn’t become conceited because of the “pedestal” his fans often put him on.
To which he replied: “To do my job, I have to very much keep in touch with the things that drew me to filmmaking in the first place, and the things that I knew when I started out, as it were.
“If my films have had an impact on people, and if that sort of raises me in people’s estimation or whatever, wonderful though that is, it’s very irrelevant, has to be irrelevant to the craft of filmmaking, in which I’m a representative of the audience, and I have to have commonality with everybody who watches the film, and I have to make the film for the audience that I am a part of. “
