It’s been two years since Christopher Nolan had a film out—Interstellar—and four years since The Dark Knight Rises. He’s currently working on Dunkirk, slated for 2017. It’s been all hush-hush until a segment of a trailer leaked last week. This led to Warner Bros. releasing an “announcement” trailer, which you can see here.
It’s a teaser, clocking in at a mere minute and six seconds. We don’t see much except for the tides and a mass of troops bracing for some sort of attack. Judging by the helmets, this takes place in either World War I or World War II. But who exactly are these soldiers and why are they here? And how does it end? My strong suspicion is
Based on this short trailer, I would have called this movie something else. Like, why not Beaches? And is this really the best that Christopher Nolan can do? How about a film that finds a glimmer of hope in a battle that is all but lost, a silver lining in, say, a mass evacuation of brave men pushed off a continent by forces of evil or something like that? It’s so utterly disappointing.
