Warner Bros. is trying to woo back Batman director Christopher Nolan after the director parted ways with the film studio following his 2020 movie Tenet. This included paying Nolan a seven-figure check (meaning somewhere in the range of $1 million-$10 million), according to a report.
For some quick context, Nolan and WB worked together for years on the Batman movies, Inception, Interstellar, and more, but the relationship ended with Tenet. Nolan called WB’s streaming service, then known as HBO Max, the “worst streaming service,” after WB elected to put Tenet in theaters and on streaming due to the pandemic. Nolan later signed a deal with Universal for his next movie, Oppenheimer, which releases in July.
This brings us to a new Variety interview with WB Film Group co-heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy. De Luca told the site, “We’re hoping to get Nolan back. I think there’s a world [where that happens],” he said.