Travis Scott Accidentally Gave The World’s First Review Of ‘Tenet’
The secrecy around this film is absurd, but here's something to hold onto.
Considering it’s one of 2020’s most anticipated films, it’s surprising how much is under lock and key about Christopher Nolan’s newest blockbuster, Tenet.
We’ve had a trailer, but we barely know anything about the plot or film’s world: enter Travis Scott, who, in promoting his tie-in song with the film, has accidentally become the world’s first Tenet reviewer.
Tenet, if 2020 went to plan, was supposed to be out by now, but has been continually pushed back due to COVID-19, with director Christopher Nolan refusing to release it internationally before it could drop in American cinemas.
It’s now slated for release in Australia and internationally on the 28th of August, with a release across a handful of open US cinemas the week after.
We still know so little about the film — its trailer seems to feature secret agents who reverse time to save the world, but Nolan keeps saying that’s not what it’s about. And we’re getting very little out of the film’s stars John David Washington, Elizabeth Debicki and Robert Pattinson, who is more concerned with making pasta in his microwave.
With little to go off, we have to grab at crumbs. Thankfully, in a GQ feature, Scott reveals that he has a song on the Tenet soundtrack later revealed on Twitter to be called ‘Flame’.
FLAME x CHRIS NOLAN COOK UP THE PLAN FRIDAY pic.twitter.com/g59Whq3Wyx
— TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) August 19, 2020
Nolan says Scott was instrumental in the film’s score.
“His voice became the final piece of a yearlong puzzle,” he told GQ. “His insights into the musical and narrative mechanism [composer] Ludwig Göransson and I were building were immediate, insightful, and profound.”
As for Scott’s world-first review? He seems to suggest the reason we don’t know anything about the film is because it defies words. “I can’t even explain it. You literally just have to watch it,” he says. “It’s very fire.”
Put that on the poster! In the meantime, try to decode what Tenet could be by rewatching the trailer below, which features far more sea than fire. Curious.
Scott’s ‘Flame’ will be released this Friday.