Director Christopher Nolan revealed Inception video game ideas today at a press event for the movie's release in Italy, covered by film industry publication, Variety.
The summer blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio grossed $753 million worldwide ($285 million domestically, $468 internationally), according to Warner Bros. Studios. Inception also has the distinction of being the only summer movie to hold a top 10 spot in the American box office for 10 straight weeks. The film hits 600 screens in Italy this Friday.
Nolan said at the press event, "One thing we are looking at doing is developing a video game based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas that you can't fit into a feature film. That's something we've been talking about and are looking at doing long-term, in a couple of years."
It doesn't sound like he speculated on what form an Inception game might take, but Nolan did talk about his fears that the film would be misinterpreted as "puzzle-like." That's probably not something he'd have to worry about in a video game, especially if he's going for mass market appeal.
Right now, the star director is busy on a script for Batman 3.
UPDATE (Dec. 1, 2010): Nolan told Entertainment Weekly blogger Jeff Jensen that the game is officially in the works:
"I always imagined Inception to be a world where a lot of other stories could take place," says Nolan. "At the moment, the only direction we're channeling that is by developing a videogame set in the world." He declined to elaborate on details or time table, only to say that he was developing the game with a team of collaborators and that it was "a longer-term proposition." He calls the medium of videogames "something I've wanted to explore" — and certainly a veritable massive multiplayer online role playing game (as imagined by Carl Jung) would seem to be a perfect for the interactive, non-linear dream world of Inception.
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'Inception' grosses $753 mil worldwide [Variety]
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