Eventually, Tom Cruise wants to literally shoot a movie in outer space. But the actor’s latest stunt is decidedly more earthbound—though also risky. On Monday in London, Cruise wore a mask and attended a special preview screening of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet in a movie theater with fellow patrons.
The Mission: Impossible star documented his trip to the cinema with a 34-second video posted to social media. “Here we are,” Cruise says after exiting his vehicle at the cinema, later revealed to be the Odeon BFI IMAX venue in Waterloo. “Back to the movies.”
In the clip, the actor and his Mission: Impossible director, Christopher McQuarrie, are seated together in an auditorium among other guests with face coverings. After the film ends, the crowd politely applauds. “It is great to be back in a movie theater, everybody,” Cruise says as he’s getting up to leave. When asked what he thought of the mysterious new film, he replies, “I loved it. I loved it.”
More than 320,000 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom during the coronavirus pandemic with daily cases having leveled off to slightly more than 1,000 per day. Those numbers pale in comparison to the outbreak in the United States, which has seen close to 6 million people diagnosed thus far. The daily death toll in America over the last month has routinely topped 1,000.
It’s that reality that has led to the reopening of movie theaters to become a source of contention in the United States. While theaters in many states have recently opened—the Russell Crowe film Unhinged topped the box office last week—major venues in New York and Los Angeles remain closed because of public health concerns. Many film critics, including Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson, have also questioned whether it is morally prudent to even review films at this point when potential ticket buyers in the States might risk contracting the virus.
“Short of renting out an entire theater, which is obviously not an option for most of us, there is no scenario in which going to a movie theater is a good idea,” Dr. Anne W. Rimoin, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center For Global And Immigrant Health at the University Of California, Los Angeles, told The A.V. Club in a recent interview. Said another epidemiologist, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, “It’s just about the last thing I’d do right now.”
In response to the unfolding situation, Warner Bros. has been creative in its rollout of Tenet. Originally set for release in July and then delayed twice, the Nolan film is open in a number of international territories now before its scattered U.S. release on September 3 in states where theaters have been allowed to operate. Famously reverent of the theatrical experience, Nolan has pushed for his film to appear in theaters. “Chris really would like to be coming out with the film that opens theaters,” IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond said in April. “I don’t know anyone in America who is pushing harder to get the theaters re-opened and to get his movie released than Chris Nolan.”
Cruise wasn’t the only high profile member of the Hollywood community to have seen Tenet in London this week. “Had the sheer pleasure of seeing TENET on the biggest screen at [BFI] IMAX,” director Edgar Wright tweeted on Tuesday. “It's ironic the only remaining summer movie has more to chew on than what would have been the season combined. Nolan gives us another spatial fiction epic which I can't wait to see again (forwards & back).”
In the replies, when a user asked Wright if he thought people in the U.S. should venture out to see Nolan’s latest on the big screen, the director said it was up to the ticket buyer. “I'd say if you feel safe doing so (the cinemas that I've been to in the last few weeks went out of their way to make the audience feel secure), then it's absolutely worth seeing on the biggest screen,” he wrote.
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