File:Tenet_movie_poster.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Tenet
Sign in to saveTenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.
OverviewAI-generated
Tenet is a 2020 spy, thriller, science fiction, and action film produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Syncopy Inc. Christopher Nolan served as director, screenwriter, and producer alongside Emma Thomas. The cast includes John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, and Dimple Kapadia. Hoyte van Hoytema was the director of photography, Nathan Crowley the production designer, and Ludwig Göransson the composer. Jennifer Lame edited the film, while Richard King handled sound design.
The movie was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2020. It has a runtime of 150 minutes and features dialogue in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Estonian. The production had a capital cost of 200,000,000 and a budget of 205,000,000. Its box office earnings reached 361,300,000, with reported revenue of 365,304,105. The film’s main subjects include causality, time, World War III, and time travel.
Audience reception varied across platforms, with an IMDb rating of 7.3 based on 688,045 votes and a TMDb average of 7.176 from 11,080 votes. The film carries the tagline "Time runs out."
Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, IMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film · TMDB
7.2Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Cast
- John David Washington as Protagonist
- Robert Pattinson as Neil
- Elizabeth Debicki as Kat
- Kenneth Branagh as Sator
- Dimple Kapadia as Priya
- Michael Caine as Crosby
Themes
- assassin
- espionage
- spy
- time travel
- mumbai (bombay), india
- arms dealer
- terrorism
- terrorist attack
- nuclear weapons
- terrorist plot
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key facts
- Film.image
- Tenet movie poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.alt
- The upper half of a man in a suit pointing a gun. The image is mirrored diagonally, with the word TENET in the middle.
- Film.director
- Christopher Nolan
- Film.writer
- Christopher Nolan
- Film.music
- Ludwig Göransson
- Film.cinematography
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Film.editing
- Jennifer Lame
- Film.studio
- Syncopy
- Film.distributor
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Film.runtime
- 150 minutes
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $205 million
- Film.gross
- $365.9 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Estonian
- Main subject
- time travel
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Screenwriter
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast member
- Himesh Patel
- Composer
- Ludwig Göransson
- Producer
- Emma Thomas
- Cinematographer
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Narrative location
- Oslo Airport
- Filming location
- Nysted Wind Farm
- Duration
- 150
- FilmAffinity ID
- 257249
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/movies/tenet
Show 11 more facts
- title
- Tenet
- production designer
- Nathan Crowley
- publication date
- 2020-09-04
- film editor
- Jennifer Lame
- capital cost
- 200000000
- sound designer
- Richard King
- box office
- 361300000
- social media followers
- 51295
- set in environment
- opera house
- review score
- 7.3/10
- Commons category
- Tenet (film)
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~36 min read
Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Writing and pre-production
- Casting
- Design and special effects
- Filming
- Post-production
- Music
- Marketing
- Release
- Theatrical
- Home media
- Reception
- Box office
- Critical response
- Audience reception
- Accolades
- Themes and analysis
- Palindromes and anadromes
- Temporal paradoxes and free will
- Scientific accuracy
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.
Nolan took over five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet central ideas for more than a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months in multiple countries. After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and in the United States on September 3, 2020. It was Nolan's last film to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tenet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.