The New 'Tenet' Trailer Explains How This Is Not a Time Travel Movie
UPDATE: Even though Christopher Nolan's next movie has been widely speculated to be about time travel, the second trailer, pretty clearly explains how it's not a time travel movie. In the new trailer—the first since December—Robert Pattinson's character asks John David Washington's character if what we're seeing is time travel. "No," Washington's character responds. "Inversion." What, exactly, that means is not clear. But we do get a little demonstration in this trailer. Washington pulls a trigger on a gun and the bullet goes from a wall into his barrel. Prepare from some fun breaking of every known rule of our universe. Classic Nolan. See the trailer at the bottom of this post.
UPDATE: It looks like the full second trailer for Tenet will be released on Thursday at 8 p.m. on Fortnite. As the tweet reads: "Grab a front row seat in Party Royale for a world premiere! Catch the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s @TENETFilm at the top of every hour on the big screen starting at 8 PM ET."
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Two months before its release date, we still don’t really know what Tenet—Christopher Nolan’s return to big-budget sci-fi—is about. Enjoy it! In the age of Marvel giving us the first two acts of its movies in every trailer, and the always-churning reports from every damn Star Wars set, it’s a borderline health choice nowadays to queue up a movie not knowing what to expect. Try it out.
No? Alright. There’s a new look at the film today for you to dissect. If you need some catching up first, Tenet’s first trailer showed John David Washington and (future Olive Garden CEO) Robert Pattinson as secret-agent types trying to prevent a world conflict by using time manipulation. The preview even had some fans speculating that Tenet is a sort-of sequel to Inception, judging by its quantum trickery and Michael Caine cameo.
#TENET Tv Spot. pic.twitter.com/DqJxWozVEl
— Reviewed (@thervwd) May 21, 2020
Now, a new TV spot for Tenet has given us our first look at footage from the movie since December. In the clip, it looks like John David Washington’s agent is in the middle of sci-fi hero training—learning how to shoot a gun amidst whatever bizarro time-skipping is going on in the world of Tenet. “You’re not shooting the bullet, you’re catching it,” his trainer says. Hopefully, the full trailer—which appears to be debuting later today—will offer a little more.
As of right now, Tenet is still slated to debut in theaters on July 17.
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