I'm clearly far less knowledgeable in the hows and whys of this but I think you nailed why I'm, as a relative layman, pretty excited for this.


If everything goes right, this is a return to the Following/Memento/Prestige era of Nolan married to everything he's learned (or mistakes he can recognize he made) from Interstellar and Dunkirk.


It's an incredible gamble both for him and the studio and I can't wait to see what happens, because it really does feel like he's been building towards an idea, let alone story, like this from the beginning.


I'm the guy that somehow saw Following before I saw Memento. And I see this one quote from his obvious director surrogate, protagonist Alex Cobb (even that surname, y'know?), in everything he's done since: "You take it away to show them what they had."


I'm so jazzed for this and I think Nolan has been on a pretty explicit downhill jam since Dark Knight (edit/sidebar: I don't mean to throw any shade at Dunkirk, though. I just think it, in a way Top Gun: Maverick has only matched, so specifically needs a theater environment to convey its stakes that I get why home audiences could be ambivalent).


Whether he sticks the landing on his interpretation or presentation of this story, it feels so tailor made for him to take a multi-million dollar crack at.

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