Certain theaters are showing extended Tenet trailers before their screenings of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Starring John David Washington, Michael Caine, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, and many others, Tenet is a project which was long-rumored to be in production, but the concept and plot remained virtually unknown until a short teaser for Tenet was released in August 2019.

Much more recently, a full-length Tenet trailer which depicted multiple shots of time moving in reverse has been released, giving viewers both some answers and more questions as to what the eventual plot and story of the Tenet film will be about. From characters climbing up buildings in reverse to mysterious, shadowy organizations and a car crashing and then un-crashing, the official Tenet trailer looks to be every bit as mind-bending as another of Christopher Nolan's previous films, Inception, if not even more so. Now, it's beginning to look as if some theater-goers are seeing more of the movie's preview than others.

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According to a recent report by THRselect IMAX theaters are screening more than six minutes of Tenet ahead of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a segment which eyewitnesses say feels very much like the prologue of the film. The sequence shown is described as being focused around a terror crisis with the camera switching between both sides of the conflict, with Tenet's John David Washington presumably speaking in code during a particular section.

John David Washington in Tenet trailer

This preview mirrors the same way Warner Brothers has advertised Nolan's previous films, with the prologues for both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises appearing in front of films like I Am Legend and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Apparently, after the short segment involving the terror attack (which THR reports some are saying mirrors the 2002 Moscow movie theater hostage crisis) is concluded, the preview then switches gears and becomes a montage featuring various other shots which were already show in Tenet's official trailer, such as the aforementioned backwards car crash.

From Interstellar to Memento, Christopher Nolan's films have always been on the experimental side. With everything viewers have been exposed to from Tenet, it looks as if this may be his most science fiction-focused movie yet, with unexplained time reversals occurring in nearly every frame seen thus far. While impatient fans will have to wait another half a year to find out just what exactly is going on in Tenet, if those same fans are going to see The Rise of Skywalker in IMAX then they might just be in for a little treat.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter