The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan has a word of advice for filmmakers working on mainstream movies: “The biggest risk of all is to play it safe.”
The moviemaker behind time-bending films like Interstellar and Tenet offered his perspective on mainstream films and audiences during an interview with The New York Times. He cautioned filmmakers from shying away from traditional risks, saying that audiences will show up for films that offer something different.
“If you’re really interested in movies and the history of movies,” Nolan said, “the one thing you see absolutely is that you have to take risks to succeed. The biggest risk of all is to play it safe.
“That’s what, consistently in mainstream movies, doesn’t work. The audience is looking for something new.”
Nolan didn’t say which mainstream movies he had in mind, but it’s hard to deny that Nolan has a group of die-hard fans who will turn out for even his most out-there projects. Oppenheimer, which retold the real-life story of atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2023, is the most recent example. The biopic pulled in a box office total just shy of $1 billion (via Box Office Mojo) despite its non-linear structure and three-hour runtime.
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