Episode 21 - Tenet (2020)

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action-thriller
film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it
with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and
United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson,
Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth
Branagh. The plot follows a secret agent (Washington) as he
manipulates the flow of time to prevent World War III.


Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after
deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for over a decade.
Pre-production began in late 2018, casting in March 2019, and
principal photography lasted three months in Denmark, Estonia,
India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and United States, from
May to November. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 70 mm
and IMAX. Scenes of time manipulation were filmed both backwards
and forwards. Upwards of one hundred vessels and thousands of
extras were used.


Delayed three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was
released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United
States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. It
was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters after the
pandemic shutdown, and has grossed $362 million worldwide, making
it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2020. However, it failed
to break even due to its costly production and marketing budget,
losing distributor Warner Bros. Pictures as much as $100 million.