HERE'S WHEN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN FIRST THOUGHT OF MAKING DUNKIRK

When Dunkirk hit the theaters earlier this year, the film created an impact we'd all thought it would.  The film wasn't just accepted but appreciated and revered by the audience. With the critics loving the film just as much as the audience, Dunkirk made its mark as yet another feather in the cap for Nolan. The film might have gotten released in 2017 but the director first had the idea of making it nearly 20 years ago when he went on a boat ride with his wife, he revealed the same at a Lincoln Ristorante Q&A with George Stevens Jr. after a screening of the film co-hosted by Barry Levinson.

He and his producer wife Emma Thomas, who has collaborated with him earlier too, were struck with the idea of making the film twenty years ago, while the couple was out on a boat trip. The trip was meant to last for a few hours but later the voyage turned out to be quite turbulent which made them reflect on the difficulties the soldiers faced during World War II, reported PageSix.

Nolan said:

“We thought it would take us six or seven hours. It took 18 to 19 hours. It was very, very cold. The sea was very, very rough with the channels. We came out of that experience . . . with a great amount respect for the reality of what actually happened” during the famed World War II battle.

He further added:

“What would it really have been like to get on a boat and make a crossing like that,” the director wondered, “but not be on holidays as we were, just going to hang around and prance for a bit — that just stuck with both of us over the years.”

Well, we can confidently say that the seed was sown decades ago which later manifested into an epic war film!