World War II Dunkirk Revealed as Nolan's Next

When your last film was Interstellar, where do you go from there? Now we know.

Visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan has announced his next film will take place during World War II, focusing on the epic evacuation of Dunkirk in northern France, when over 300,000 soldiers were cut off and surrounded by the German army. With that many men about to die or be captured, Winston Churchill hailed their rescue as a “miracle of deliverance” in his famous “We shall fight on the beaches speech.”

Nolan will direct Dunkirk from his original screenplay, and is already testing young actors in London for lead roles, while Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) and Kenneth Branagh have begun talks to join the cast. Maybe Branagh will play heroic Admiral William Tennant (then Captain), whose leadership as Beachmaster is widely credited with making Operation Dynamo the success it was.  

Warner Brothers has set the film for release on July 21st, 2017, with shooting to commence this May in France using a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large format film for extreme image quality and immersion. Anything with Nolan at the helm immediately captures our attention, but the idea of him depicting a period era film (his last was The Prestige) in the harsh brutality of the Second World War makes Dunkirk one of the most highly anticipated films nearing production.