Christopher Nolan Says ‘Oppenheimer’ Success Marks New “Post Franchise, Post Intellectual Property” Era For Cinema
by GroundbreakingSet187
Christopher Nolan Says ‘Oppenheimer’ Success Marks New “Post Franchise, Post Intellectual Property” Era For Cinema
by GroundbreakingSet187
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**Nolan :**
> “I think the success of Oppenheimer certainly points to a sort of post franchise, post intellectual property, landscape for movies — it’s kind of encouraging.”
Post IP? What does he mean?
The fuck it does.
I love Chris Nolan and am glad he’s out there making films, but let’s not confuse why he’s given complete creative control over his projects: he made Warner Brothers a fuckton of money by giving them a successful franchise series in his take on Batman.
That’s why he was able to do films like inception and is one of a handful of filmmakers that get to have 100% control of their vision with these massive budgets.
It’s like him and Cameron at the top and then everyone else.
Even Gerwig had to fight tooth and nail to get what she wanted from the studios for Barbie and what was the lesson these executives took from that?
Was it Greta was right and we need to trust our directors when we hire them?
Nope, it was the Mattel cinematic universe!
So I love Nolan’s optimism here but my guess is the only thing that Oppenheimer’s success will bring is more big budget bio pics centered around historical events but without freedom for the people involved to actually make them successful.
For him maybe. But these kinds of films already existed and the films he’s criticizing continue to exist. Nothing has changed.
Barbie will have a bigger cultural impact than Oppenheimer that will be felt in the next few years.
Great advertising for Oppenheimer 2 and the Oppenheimer Cinematic Universe.
People just want to watch good movies, IP or not.
Nolan himself is a brand, which is kind of a unique position to be in as a director.
I don’t know if he acknowledges that he has the career he has in large part due to his work and contributions to a major franchise.
I don’t think he would have the carte Blanche with studios he does have if it weren’t for The Dark Knight. Would inception have even been made if he never directed Batman?
I like his stuff but he needs to get off his horse a bit.
“Oppenheimer 2 in the Works”
Where it needs to go. Haven’t watched an MCU movie in ages unless it pops up on TV and there is literally nothing else to watch. Certainly haven’t felt an urge to go out of my way to seek them out at all. And even when offered up free of charge I feel I’ve spent too much on the effort to sit through them.
At this point I would struggle to believe that the 2 biggest movies this year won’t be Dune 2 (a sequel) and Deadpool 3 (a sequel and part of the MCU).
Christopher Nolan farts.
“I think cinema is headed into a gassier, noisier direction…”
No, it really doesn’t. Not at all.
Studios are scrambling because their streaming services are not magic money makers. They’ll see a trend and try to milk it for as much as it’s worth- with as little effort as possible.
They are not magically going to throw huge money AND creative freedom to biopics. They might be more INCLINED to invest in biopics- but studios, while they’ve always ONLY cared about profit (let’s be real), are seemingly much more conscious about that almighty bottom line. The trend starts not making money? Moving on.
And there is only ONE Christopher Nolan. Few directors would ever be given such leeway on projects- and studios like that. He has made huge bucks, which is why he gets the leeway he does.
And guess what? He makes a flop- everyone realizes how quickly such leeway gets taken away.
(And let’s not kid ourselves- Oppenheimer was huge; because it was a Chris Nolan film. He is the franchise. And Barbie was still ALOT bigger, box office wise).