Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer ended up being a pretty big hit for the filmmaker and for Universal Pictures, and as you might expect, everyone wants to know what the filmmaker will do next. During an interview with Variety, the director was recently asked if he knows what kind of movie he wants to make next and if he’d be open to returning to franchise filmmaking.
While Nolan doesn’t reveal what he’s looking at doing next, he does say that he’s open to anything. He explained:
“Ideas come from everywhere. I’ve done a remake, I’ve made adaptations from comic books and novels, and I’ve written original screenplays. I’m open to anything. But as a writer and director, whatever I do, I have to feel like I own it completely. I have to make it original to me: The initial seed of an idea may come from elsewhere, but it has to go through my fingers on a keyboard and come out through my eyes alone.”
The director was then asked about Warner Bros. and if there was any bad blood between them. He famously left the studio and went to Universal Pictures after WB’s focus turned to streaming during the pandemic. In response to the question, Nolan said it was “water under the bridge.”
When asked if he would work with WB again, he said: “Oh yeah, absolutely. Pam [Abdy] and Mike [De Luca] and [David] Zaslav, they’re trying to do some great things with that studio, which is encouraging to see.”
It’ll be interesting to see what Nolan ends up doing next.
