One of the biggest (and most secretive) films of the summer was part of Warner Bros. ShoWest presentation yesterday in Las Vegas. Coming Soon was there and has a great report on the show. Director Christopher Nolan started by saying:
[Inception is] an action film told in a grand scale by a character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who runs a team of people who have access to a technology that allows them to enter people’s minds through their dreams. He described dreams as both intimate and infinite experiences that will allow one to go any place, so they went to six different countries to shoot it, and that he wanted to create an immersive experience similar to the ones he treasured when he was a child while watching the James Bond movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
They report Nolan has “created something that falls in line with The Matrix in terms of combining action with philosophy”. As for the footage, Latino Review has a quick list below, but I highly encourage you to head over to Comingsoon for a detailed report.
* Leonardo and Ellen Page walking down a long hallway.
* A scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt telling Ken Watanabe about what it is Leonardo does.
* Another scene that looked like something out of a Modern Warfare game. Guys dressed in white military outfits battling on a snow capped mountaintop. One scene showed Ken in military gear tossing a grenade through a window.
* Another scene with Leo in a car filled with water.
Check out an interview with Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas below, with CS and Cinemablend.
The best quote of the night from Katey Rich:
The minute I started scrawling notes about people falling down snowy mountains, it was on to a scene of Joseph Gordon-Levitt floating in zero gravity and tying up a bunch of corpses.
Check out her full report here.
Inception hits theaters July 16th.
What do you think about the footage reports? Will you stop reading stuff, to go in fresh?