Total Film Magazine released a series of images for Christopher Nolan's upcoming film Tenet, giving moviegoers a first look at some of the supporting players.
The images, uploaded onto Gamesradar, feature John David Washington's character with a file under his arm, as well as a behind the scenes photo of him and Nolan. We also glimpse Elizabeth Debicki in a wetsuit and Kenneth Branaugh holding what appears to be gold bars, though there's no context for their actions. The images are part of an upcoming Total Film article about Tenet’s production, which will be released on print and digital on May 29.
"It's a film of great ambition and great scale that takes a genre, namely the spy film, and tries to take it into some new territory, and tries to take the audience on a ride they might not have had before, and might not be expecting,” Nolan told Total Film in an interview. Compared to the likes of Bond and Bourne, the director emphasized that Tenet will be "giving the audience an incredible ride in the spy movie genre, but using the audience's facility with following the conventions of that genre to push it into some interesting and unexpected territory."
While much is still unknown about Tenet’s plot, the trailer has clarified some cryptic details. Washington plays a man designated only as "Protagonist," who's tasked with stopping World War III, though the threat this time isn't nuclear. Instead, his target is a Russian national (Kenneth Branagh) who can communicate with the future through what the film dubs “time inversion,” a concept different from time travel. To prevent such a disaster from happening, he must rely on a single word — Tenet — to track down this adversary.
Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branaugh, Dimple Kapadia, Martin Donovan, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy, Denzil Smith and Michael Caine. The film is set for a theatrical release on July 17.