Having spoken to both Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy in the last few weeks, I was really hoping to get something out of them regarding Chris Nolan’s latest mind-bending summer flick, Inception; alas, they shut up shop and would tell me nowt. Now, though, Nolan has spoken to The LA Times, giving some interesting titbits on the production.
According to the paper DiCaprio plays a "specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage - he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile - as can DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife." Nolan goes into moderate details calling the film an "existential heist movie." DiCaprio himself chimed in saying "complex and ambiguous are the perfect way to describe the story," which, ironically is somewhat of an ambiguous statement.
Anyway, it looks spectacular; and given this is from the director of The Dark Knight and Momento, we can expect spectacular visuals and smart scripting by the bucket load.
