The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan (Paperback)

A comprehensive study of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone.

Written with the full cooperation of Christopher Nolan himself, who granted Tom Shone access to never-before-seen photographs, storyboards and sketches, the book is a deep-dive into the director's films, influences, methods and obsessions. Here for the first time is Nolan on his dislocated, transatlantic childhood, how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm at school, his colour-blindness and its effect on Memento, his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions - and much, much more. The Nolan Variations is a rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock.

Updated, with a chapter on Oppenheimer.