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If you click here, you can check out the full program for this month’s San Diego Comic Con, which takes place July 24-27th at the San Diego Convention Center. Expect some bigs things at this year’s con including the possible debut of the trailer and poster for FRIDAY THE 13th and first looks at tons of horror films arriving in theaters this year and next. We’ll be doing live coverage from the event, so watch this spot over the course of the five day event for loads of scoops, first looks and more! Ironic as it may be, this is the mecca of the movie geek world. Note: If you are attending please join me on the panel “Masters of the Web” from 10:00-11:00 with the editors and owners of some of the other top sites on the web. Moderated by directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank 2, The Game). Room 32AB
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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