Warner Bros. trailer for the re-release of Inception spoils the final shot of Christopher Nolan's movie. At the beginning of 2020, Nolan's new film Tenet was widely deemed as the most anticipated movie of the year. The director has built up quite the following over the last several years thanks to his innovative blockbusters, whether it be his Dark Knight trilogy or his biggest original movie, Inception.
The movie is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and the occasion will see Warner Bros. send Inception back into theaters. Plans for Inception's re-release were revealed after the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters, as Nolan and WB plan to make the movie available in cinemas ahead of new films, like Tenet, being released. Even with all the time that has passed between Inception's original release and now, the film remains heavily discussed due to its ambiguous ending. But, in order to promote the upcoming re-release, a new trailer has spoiled the final shot.
Warner Bros. released a new Inception trailer specifically to market the re-release of the film, which ends with the film's final shot of Cobb's (Leonardo DiCaprio) top spinning. The trailer hypes how Nolan's movie "broke all the rules" 10 years ago when it hit theaters, and it appears WB is taking the same approach with the re-release marketing by showing how the movie ends.
The decision to show Inception's ending with this trailer is peculiar, especially how the movie is being pushed in this piece of marketing. The trailer says that the re-release is the opportunity for "a new generation" to see the movie on the big screen as it was intended. This is a great way to sell the movie to people who might have missed Inception in theaters (or watched in on Fortnite earlier this year), but it's counterintuitive for those who haven't seen the movie yet. That said, even seeing the final shot in this trailer doesn't spoil too much, as the context is still missing for those who don't already understand what the top means.
Inception's spinning top ending is easily one of the movie's most iconic moments too, so WB knows most are already familiar with the scene, even if they haven't seen the movie. Those who have seen Inception have continued to debate the true meaning of the final shot and decipher if Cobb seeing his children is a dream or his reality. Now that Inception is returning to theaters with a tenth-anniversary re-release, the conversation surrounding the film's ending could be reignited once more.
Source: Warner Bros.