Dunkirk (2017 film)
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| Directed by | Christopher Nolan |
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| Written by | Christopher Nolan |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| Edited by | Lee Smith |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Language | English |
Dunkirk is an upcoming English-language epic war thriller written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Set in the Second World War, it concerns the Dunkirk evacuation. The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.
Filming began on 23 May 2016 in Dunkirk, France, and was shot on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema.
Dunkirk is scheduled to be released on 21 July 2017 in IMAX.
Allied soldiers from Britain, Belgium, Canada, and France are surrounded by the German Army on the beaches on Dunkirk and evacuated in Operation Dynamo between 26 May and 4 June 1940, during the early stages of the Second World War.
Hoyte van Hoytema was chosen as cinematographer; Hoytema previously collaborated with director Christopher Nolan on his 2014 film Interstellar. Nolan made a deal with Warner Bros. whereby he would receive a $20 million salary plus 20% of the box office gross, the most lucrative deal since Peter Jackson received the same amount for King Kong.
Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance were in talks to join the ensemble as supporting characters in late 2015. Fionn Whitehead was cast as the lead in March 2016, and Jack Lowden, Aneurin Barnard and Harry Styles were added to the list shortly after.Cillian Murphy joined the following month.James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan and Tom Glynn-Carney were included in the line-up later that May. In the film, Hardy plays a pilot. He spent a bulk of his shooting schedule inside a cockpit and had limited exposure to the rest of the cast and crew. After first-hand accounts of the Dunkirk evacuation revealed to Nolan how young and inexperienced the soldiers were, he desired to cast a young actor in the lead role.
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