Los Angeles: British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, while speaking in a podcast, confirmed that he will not be directing any more superhero movies as he lacks interest in the genre right now.
In a podcast with YouTuber HugoDecrypte, Nolan was asked if he would make “another superhero movie," and he answered, “No.”
The question came during a speed round in which the YouTuber also asked the acclaimed filmmaker if he “could make a TV show one day, and Nolan again straight-up answered saying “no.”
However, when he was asked about Star Wars if he would want to direct a movie based on the popular space opera sci-fi franchise, Nolan said did not give a definitive answer.
In a recent interview with 'The Telegraph', Nolan lamented over what he perceives to be the big production houses missing the key points of cinema that constitute its very essence. In his eyes, the studios mistake cinema for plot and not its audiovisual elements.
“Whether for budgetary reasons or reasons of control, studios now look at a screenplay as a series of events and say, ‘This is the essence of what the film is.’ And that’s completely at odds with how cinema developed, right from the Lumiere brothers’ train pulling into the station, as a pure audiovisual experience,” Nolan said.
But it is a very popular fallacy, that all that matters is the scale of the story being told, he added.
“People will tell you that the success of ‘Star Wars’ had nothing to do with its visual effects, and it was all down to its great story,” Nolan continued. “But, I mean, clearly that’s not the case. It is indeed a great story, but it’s also an incredible visual and aural experience.
“So, this wilful denial of what movies actually are has set in. People will say, ‘Why would you have to see something like 'Aftersun' on the big screen?’ But of course, you have to. It also plays wonderfully on TV, but that’s not the point.”
Meanwhile, Nolan's upcoming film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh, is all set to hit the theatres on July 21.
With inputs from IANS