Inception Conception

Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception is now in the editing stage--After months of secrecy he's finally talking about the trippy July 16th sci-fi summer pic.

Talking with the LA Times' Hero Complex Blog, the writer/director says:

“I think we’ve put a lot of different things into the pot with this one. I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility.... We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”

When asked if the film, which follows business tycoon (Leo DiCaprio) on a dream-invading corporate crime spree, fits a specific genre after it's also been pegged as a love story, a thriller and the first every metaphysical heist movie:

Nolan says that it's all of the above. And he admits that this is the biggest film he's ever attempted.

"This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point. We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

The filming schedule took place in six countries and, according to Nolan's producing partner (and wife) Emma Thomas,, "it's a big leap, but also a more personal one: It’s something that we had been talking about on and off for seven or eight years. Coming off of the The Dark Knight, the only thing we really knew is that we wanted to do something more personal. It seemed like the right time to do this. The fact that it’s really just an enormous movie - that wasn’t ever really a factor in the decision. This story lends itself to a movie of this size."

The cast also includes Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Ken Watanabe.

I'm even more jazzed for this pic now than I was before and with Nolan involved that's saying a lot