Christopher Nolan's TENET Has Been Delayed Indefinitely

Warner Bros. has decided to temporarily remove Christopher Nolan’s Tenet off the theatrical release schedule for now and the release has been delayed indefinitely. While I’m bummed out, I’m not surprised. It’s not like we didn’t see this coming as major U.S. cities like Los Angeles and New York are keeping a lot of businesses closed down.

The studio is said to be planning an unconventional theatrical rollout which won’t be a global day-and-date one. According to Deadline, that means, “Essentially, with theaters reopening in China, and Asian markets like South Korea vibrant, and other offshore territories in Europe and Japan coming back on line, there is a good probability that the Christopher Nolan movie will open abroad first. In regards to the U.S. where drive-ins are dominating the business, and just over 1K of the nation’s 5K theaters open, Tenet is poised to open wherever and whenever it can and it’s safe to do so, even if New York City and Los Angeles aren’t back on line.”

Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich said in a statement:

“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing feature. We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that.”

I imagine several other films opening around the same time will follow suit, so stay tuned for a lot more release date changes.

Tenet has been described as a “mind-blowing espionage thriller so unique that audiences will puzzle over its intricacies for years to come.” It’s also said to be a “time-bending masterpiece” about a Quantum Cold War. This is the synopsis for the film:

Armed with only one word – Tenet – and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

The movie stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh.

The studio also announced that the release of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It has been moved to June 4, 2021.