By Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” looks to be the one to beat on the awards circuit, the film has universal critical acclaim along with industry respect and nearly a billion dollars in worldwide box-office.
Nolan himself though thinks the success of the film could go beyond that, in fact he suggests it could lead to a change in the way the entire industry does movies.
Appearing on Alex Zane’s awards season podcast Countdown To The BAFTAs (via The Playlist), Nolan says the film’s success “points to a sort of post franchise, post intellectual property, landscape for movies” before adding that ” it’s kind of encouraging”.
He goes on to explain that the film’s success shows the studios that there is an appetite for something people haven’t seen before:
“Everybody has a tendency to talk down the movie business. For the whole time I’ve been working in movies, I felt the cultural establishment was always predicting the demise of movie theaters, and I now get asked that question: ‘what do I think about the health of the movie business?’
And I don’t really know how to respond. We just released a three hour R-rated film about quantum physics, and it made a billion dollars. Like what? Obviously, our view is that the audience is excited to see something new.”
He goes on to say when he took the film out to see if any studio wanted to make it, he says: “a lot of people seemed interested in making it, and that was a great position to be in.”
He adds that the success of Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame” also allowed them to go so long with the film as it showed that even very lengthy films can be incredibly successful.
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