Steven Soderbergh revealed he stepped in to ensure Nolan got a meeting with them that set up a two-decade run at the company.
The Big Picture Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is currently packing out multiplexes across the world, to the delight of Universal, the studio Nolan is working with for the first time on the production and release of his film about the Manhattan Project and the making of the first atomic bomb. Nolan signed on with Universal after departing from his long-time collaborators at Warner Bros.
It's now emerged, though, that had Warner Bros. had their way, Nolan would never have been with the company to begin with, as Steven Soderbergh has now revealed. In 2001, Soderbergh was just coming off Ocean's Eleven for Warner Bros. and held a lot of sway with the company.
I see the movie, and I think it’s a fucking instant classic, and I go, ‘Well, this is really depressing.’ I was really upset when I got out of there. It turns out that the financiers, Newmarket, opened their own distribution company and made $25 million on it.” "And I go, ‘What do you mean they won’t take the meeting?’ And he goes, ‘Well, the executive there didn’t like Memento.' And I said, ‘Well, so what? Why won’t they take the meeting?’ So, I called that executive and I said, ‘Take the meeting. You’ve got to take the meeting.’ And he goes, ‘But I didn’t like the movie.’ And I go, ‘Well, did you like the movie-making?’ And he goes, ‘Well, yeah, it’s brilliantly made.’ And I go, ‘Take the meeting.
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