Tenet is not a movie about time travel, according to director Christopher Nolan. With plot details about the being slim, there has been rampant speculation among fans that Tenet will dive into time travel, a hallmark of previous Nolan films. While Nolan is sitting in the director's for what looks to be another Summer blockbuster, the film will star John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki.
It's no secret that Nolan is obsessed with the idea of time, playing around with it in a myriad of ways in his films. In the 2000 thriller Interstellar. While it appears the concept of time, and the manipulation of time, will play a role in the movie, time travel itself will not be the focus of the film.
In a recent interview with EW, Nolan insisted that "This film is not a time-travel film. It deals with time and the different ways in which time can function. Not to get into a physics lesson, but inversion is this idea of material that has had its entropy inverted, so it’s running backwards through time, relative to us." Even though Tenet isn't a time travel movie, the manipulation of time will still clearly play a role in the events of the film.
Fans are excited to see Tenet in theaters, but the film has slowly come to life amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Recently, the release date of Mulan into theaters, hoping to help revive the struggling industry. Many movie theaters are reopening in July, meaning that Tenet will be one of the first new films fans will have an opportunity to see this Summer. Nolan likely wishes his film wouldn't have been affected by COVID-19, but the film may benefit from fans being eager to return to the cinemas.
The inversion idea has already been revealed through inversion is going to work throughout Tenet, but it will surely maintain the same emphasis on time that Nolan strives for in many of his films.
Source: EW
