Why Chris Nolan's Next Movie MUST Be This

Tenet was an undeniably ambitious piece of work, no matter the issues many had with it: namely its willfully muddy sound mix and an exposition-heavy screenplay which cast concrete meaning aside in favour of "feeling."

In many ways Tenet felt like the director delivering an all-encompassing thesis on his own work as a blockbuster filmmaker, delivering jaw-dropping technical filmmaking alongside uneven writing.

The mixed response to Tenet suggests that Nolan might've finally hit a wall where his ambitious storytelling is concerned, that he's basically taken his high-wire filmmaking as far as he possibly can, short of pulling a Doug Liman and heading into space with Tom Cruise.

And so, this really might be the perfect time for Nolan to pull back, take a breather from the mega-budget tentpole films, and work on something a little more modest and restrained.

For those who love Nolan's earlier films like Memento and Insomnia, it'd certainly be refreshing to see the director working within the constraints of a more down-to-Earth sandbox, giving human beings precedent over gimmicky action captured with IMAX cameras.

As such, a Howard Hughes biopic couldn't be much further away from the stylistic backbone of his tentpole films, and could help Nolan gain some much-needed perspective before heading back out into the blockbuster arena.

But there's even more timeliness than that, because looking at the world as it is today, there's really never been a riper opportunity for a film about the paranoid, reclusive businessman...