Tenet: IMAX preview reactions promise a crazy "backwards-forwards" ride

A 10-minute preview of Christopher Nolan's new movie Tenet has been attached to the 10th-anniversary re-release of Inception. And the reactions promise another audacious, jaw-dropping and thrilling blockbuster experience from this rule-breaking filmmaker.

Tenet deals not in time travel but 'time-inversion', and the IMAX reactions have teased how this plays out in the movie. The preview reportedly features sequences shot in backwards and forwards motion, scrambling our pre-conceived notions of what time is. It's very, very Nolan, as is the fact that the movie has used virtually no green screen whatsoever. Everything has been captured in-camera with stunts and practical effects, which has already impressed Tenet actor Himesh Patel.

#Tenet preview:
-John David Washington listed as “The Protagonist”
-Professional stuntmen said they’ve never done anything like Tenet
-They shot the same scenes twice, once forwards once with the actors doing everything backwards.
-NO green screen
-they did EVERYTHING practically
— 𝕝𝕛𝕨𝕣 • Lewis (@ljwr_) August 12, 2020

#Tenet preview stuff:
Mainly extended stuff from the trailers, more scenes of Kenneth Branagh, who seems like he’s gonna steal the show as the Russian villain. Holding Elizabeth Debicki at gunpoint during the car chase from the trailers pic.twitter.com/JxMFlgxZep
— 𝕝𝕛𝕨𝕣 • Lewis (@ljwr_) August 12, 2020

-they shot on an 8 mile stretch of highway for 2 weeks (may be remembering the numbers wrong) for the car chase
-footage of JDW fighting on top of an armoured van
-JDW did all his own stunts
-Pattinson said no one has done anything like Tenet, & no one will ever be able to again
— 𝕝𝕛𝕨𝕣 • Lewis (@ljwr_) August 12, 2020

-professional stuntmen said they’d never done anything like Tenet
-actors did the same scenes forwards & then backwards (footage of JDW doing a front roll & then a back roll) (footage of stuntmen fighting & being flipped over someone, then physically doing the opposite)
— 𝕝𝕛𝕨𝕣 • Lewis (@ljwr_) August 12, 2020

The #Tenet preview before Inception was mind blowing! Can’t wait to see it!
— Blue Tone - MCFC (@MCFCTone) August 12, 2020

The Tenet preview before Inception is AMAZING. CANT WAIT.
— funnyoldworld (@funnyoldworldx) August 12, 2020

That #Tenet preview was madness. Good or bad, rest assure, TENET is going to be something to behold.
— Cory Sims (@CorySims7) August 13, 2020

We trust that'a got you fired up for Nolan's latest epic. If you haven't already done so, click here to book your tickets for Tenet. The movie opens in the UK and Ireland on 26th August.