[Intense music playing under narration] 
The second trailer just dropped
for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming 
summer blockbuster “Tenet”,
and as anticipation builds for this movie 
that is shrouded in secrecy,
I’m going to get you up to speed on
four things you need to know about 
this espionage action/thriller,
including how “Tenet” will decide the future
for the rest of the summer blockbuster season,
so stay tuned!
The movie is loaded with high-calibre talent
Christopher Nolan has packed the movie to the brim with an excellent cast
such as:John David Washington playing the lead;
Three Harry Potter alumni 
who are: Robert Pattinson,
Clémence Poésy,
and Kenneth Branagh 
as Tenet’s Russian terrorist.
As well as Nolan’s frequent collaborator
 Michael Cain,
who has been in eight 
of the filmmaker’s movies.
But one of Nolan’s frequent collaborators
that will NOT be returning in “Tenet"
is composer Hans Zimmer
who had to respectfully decline 
since he’s busy working on the “Dune” remake.
But in his place is Ludwig Göransson
who worked on Marvel’s “Black Panther”,
Childish Gambino’s “This is America”,
and the Star Wars series “The Mandalorian”.
Tenet’s plot still remains a mystery.
Christopher Nolan has taken every effort to
keep his story under wraps,
even going so far as to have some of the cast 
kept in the dark about the story details.
Nolan’s go-to actor Michael Cain was only
given the parts of the script that had his lines on them,
and he reportedly still didn’t
even understand what the movie was about
after shooting had ended.
For Robert Pattinson
–who has a much larger role in the movie–
was only allowed to read the script in a locked room provided to him by the studio.
The second trailer that just dropped only
shed a little bit of light on the vague storyline
by pointing out that the narrative is about
the INVERSION of time,
or "time bending" if you will,
and not about time travel like many
have believed since the first reveal trailer.
So as usual you should be prepared to have
your perceptions of reality challenged
as we’ve come to expect from 
most of Christopher Nolan’s latest work.
“Tenet” is Christopher Nolan’s riskiest
project to date
Nolan’s upcoming project is one of his most
expensive movies he’s ever made,
coming in somewhere 
around $205 million dollars,
which is second only to the 
$250 million dollar budget
of 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises”.
It makes sense that “Tenet” is his first
project in 8 years to raise the stakes that high
because it is a quintessential 
summer blockbuster
by being filmed on IMAX 
and globetrotting across 7 different locations,
including: Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Most movie studios wouldn’t bet this big
on an original screenplay,
especially in the COVID-19 world 
we find ourselves in today,
But Nolan has done extremely well to earn 
the goodwill of Warner Bros. studios
by writing, producing, and directing
some of the most critically and commercially acclaimed movies of the past two decades.
“Tenet” will decide the future for the
rest of the summer releases.
All eyes in Hollywood are on 
Christopher Nolan’s espionage thriller
and according to IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond,
Nolan is “pushing harder than anyone” to get theaters 
re-opened for Tenet’s debut
instead of opting 
for a digital-only release.
This doesn’t really 
come as a surprise
since the famous director 
is known for his old-school filmmaking techniques
like shooting on film
instead of using digital cameras,
and relying upon practical effects for his action set
pieces, instead of CGI.
However, due to the safety regulations imposed
by the COVID-19 pandemic,
many summer blockbusters like 
Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan”,
the new “SpongeBob” movie,
and “Wonder Woman 1984”
have all pushed back their release dates 
to later on in the summer,
hoping for social distancing regulations
to allow movie-goers 
to safely return to theaters.
But all the while “Tenet” has stood its
ground with its original release date
on July 17, 2020,
setting itself up to be the “guinea pig” 
to reveal if people have any interest
in returning to the movie theaters, 
if given the chance.
Would you go see “Tenet” or any other
movie this summer if theaters re-opened?
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