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Christopher Nolan Doesn't Want to Work with "pointless" Netflix!

Thursday, July 20, 2017 • Common Comments
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The directory legend of Hollywood broke his silence on teaming up with Netflix (A very popular Movie\TV-show streaming platform).

You`d think that a mastermind like Nolan would want to say yes` to make more business out of the whole ordeal but to him, it`s more quality of work than the quantity of money.

He says “Netflix has a bizarre aversion to supporting theatrical films,” Nolan said in an interview with Indiewire this week.

“They have this mindless policy of everything having to be simultaneously streamed and released, which is obviously an untenable model for theatrical presentation. So they`re not even getting in the game, and I think they`re missing a huge opportunity”

While he praises Amazon Prime,

“You can see that Amazon is very clearly happy to not make that same mistake. The theaters have a 90-day window. It`s a perfectly usable model. It`s terrific.”

“I think the investment that Netflix is putting into interesting filmmakers and interesting projects would be more admirable if it weren`t being used as some kind of bizarre leverage against shutting down theaters. It`s so pointless. I don`t really get it.”

“I grew up in the 80s, the birth of home video. Your worst nightmare in the 90s as a filmmaker was that the studio would turn around and go, You know what? We`re going to put it on video instead of theaters.` They did that all the time. There`s nothing new in that.”

“Corporations are able to portray this kind of behavior to Wall Street as disruptive,'” he said. “That kind of became a buzzword a few years ago. So the idea that you`re disrupting the existing distribution mechanism has somehow assigned a kind of futuristic value to something that`s always been about lowest common denominator stuff. If Netflix has made a great film, they should put it in theaters. Why not? Stream it 90 days later”

“Every generation thinks they`re the ones who invented television and that there`s never been any good television before. I think when you look at the different supposed golden eras of television, there is a tendency in the television community or the press around it to eulogize about TV. The film tends not to do that about itself. The film industry tends to not sit around and go, Oh, what we do is so much better than what Howard Hawks was doing in the '50s or whatever. It`s just a stylistic difference.” Nolan explains.

“Ten years ago I`d get asked a lot of questions about the video game industry,” he said. “Like, is that going to kill movies or whatever? It`s a different thing. Now it`s VR. They`re just different things. I love television. It`s great. I love what my brother`s doing on TV, I love watching him work in that format. It`s just a completely different medium.”

“Studio filmmaking has always been a high-stakes business because it really is where the art and commerce come together,” he said. “If you can find a way to work in the system, it`s a very powerful machine, with a lot of resources, and excellent distribution mechanisms.”

He finally concludes that Movie-making is the core of his passion and that the theaters add a huge value to the whole process.

“My interest in cinema is large-scale storytelling, and I think the studios are the best place to do that if you can find a great working relationship.” He says.

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