What The Horror Movie Version Of Christopher Nolan's Inception Was About
The earliest concept for Inception was to make it into a horror movie. Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins raised the cinematic side of the Dark Knight franchise from the grave. The series stalled thanks to the universal slating that greeted 1997's Batman And Robin, and Warner Bros had a tough time figuring out how to revive it. Batman Begins not only proved there was life in the character yet, but it was entirely possible to make a more relatable Batman adventure. In between making his Dark Knight movie trilogy, Warner's funded two other Nolan projects: 2006's The Prestige and 2010's Inception.
The latter was the rarest of beasts, as it was a major blockbuster with a name cast that was also an original concept that wasn't based on a book or comic. Inception cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb a thief who specializes in extracting secret information from people in their dreams. Making a heist movie inside the dreamscape turned out to be an inspired choice, and helped make Inception one of the biggest films of Nolan's career. It's still one of his most popular projects too, including its cryptic final scene and the many memes and fan theories it inspired.
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Christopher Nolan is a horror movie fan himself, though he has yet to helm a genre project. There have been touches of horror throughout his work, including the «fear gas» scenes from Batman Begins or even the Joker from The Dark Knight, showing he has a feel for the genre. Inception is a concept he (pun intended) had been dreaming of since his teen years but had trouble cracking the core story behind it. In fact, his very first treatment for Inception in the early 2000s was a straight-ahead horror movie.
According to an interview with The
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