INCEPTION

摘要

It should come as no surprise that the wired office is full ofrabid Christopher Nolan fans. Over the years, we've hosted viewing parties for Dark Knight trailers, run an entire magazine section dissecting the timelines and influences of Inception, and maniacally discussed just about every shot and line from the man's oeuvre. So last year, upon hearing that Nolan was taking on Interstellar as his first post-Dark Knight directing effort, we were ecstatic. The staff immediately started fantasizing about what we might do. A McConaughey-Hathaway-Chastain cover! An essay about the new, Nolan-inspired golden age of sci-fi! A behind-the-scenes look at the film's creation! Alas, as is so often the case with magazine-making, the real world conspired to foil many of our plans. We assigned a short feature about one of Nolan's collaborators and left it at that. 1 But late this summer, a single yellow Post-it note waiting on my desk rekindled our hopes. The message was simple but full of promise: "Chris Nolan called." Below those three words was a number. I picked up the phone and learned, to my amazement and delight, that Nolan is as much a fan of wired as wired is of him. By the next morning, we had agreed on a path: The December issue would be his to guest-edit. Days later, a team from wired was sitting in the Syncopy production facilities, waist-deep in ideas and notes, scribbles for the stories that now fill these pages. That would be the first of many work sessions, brainstorms, and story reviews for our very own Christopher Nolan project.