Not the same kind of desperate, though. Warner Bros executives were only desperate enough to send the CEOs to see Peter Jackson in person in New Zealand (where I hope Jackson received them in his full-scale mockup of Edoras’s throne room) to talk about him doing more LotR flicks. That’s fairly desperate, sure. But how desperate are they to get Christopher Nolan back?
This desperate: “Inside sources at the studio say that “the director received a seven-figure royalty check from Warner Bros. within the past eight months. The payment was tied to his 2020 film Tenet.” …You only pay millions of dollars to start the groveling process when you’re really, really desperate. I still suggest Nolan should give Zack Snyder a call. See if he has any good ideas for suitable public humiliations, and all that.