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John David Washington’s ‘Tenet’ Delayed Indefinitely Amid Coronavirus Crisis

*Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “Tenet” has been delayed for a third time amid coronavirus concerns, Warner Bros. said Monday.

The spy film was originally slated to open on July 17. Then it was pushed to July 31 due to movie theater closures. Warner Bros. delayed the film again until Aug. 12. Now it has been pushed indefinitely, per Urban Hollywood

“Our goals throughout this process have been to ensure the highest odds of success for our films while also being ready to support our theater partners with new content as soon as they could safely reopen,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich said in a statement The Hollywood Reporter.

Emmerich added that the studio will share “a new 2020 release date imminently.”

“We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that,” he said.

“Tenet” stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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Pattinson and Washington star in the international espionage thriller as two agents trained to stop World War III. The rest of the plot is on the low-low, but Nolan has described the movie as “an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage.”

“We’re jumping off from the point of view of an espionage film, but we’re going to a number of different places,” Nolan told Entertainment Weekly in December. “We’re crossing a few different genres in a hopefully exciting and fresh way. [Producer] Emma [Thomas] and I have put together a lot of large-scale productions, but this is certainly the biggest in terms of international reach.”

He added, “We shot in seven countries, all over the place, with a massive cast and huge set pieces. There’s no question, it’s the most ambitious film we’ve made.”

The “Inception” director also called Washington “very much the hero” of the film.

“He’s a massively talented actor and physically gifted,” he added. “He’s an athlete and pretty hard for anybody to keep up with, including the different vehicles we shot him from — cars and helicopters. This guy moves.”

Watch the trailer via the YouTube clip above.

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