Christopher Nolan's TENET Will Open Internationally a Week Before he U.S.

Warner Bros. has revealed their latest release plans for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, and as expected, it’s going to be an unconventional release due to the pandemic.

The studio has announced the highly-anticipated movie will open internationally in late August one week before it’s released in the United States. Tenet will open in 70 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain and the U.K. on August 26th, with some territories including China still yet to receive a release date.

Then on September 3rd, ahead of Labor Day weekend, the movie will open in select US cities. I imagine those sites won’t include Los Angeles or New York, but we’ll have to wait and see.

So, the movie is going to be completely spoiled before U.S. audiences get to see it, and that kinda bums me out. As you know, it’s hard to avoid spoilers these days, especially with social media. I’ll make an attempt to avoid them, but in the line of business I’m in, we’ll see how that goes.

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.

Source: THR