Tenet: Everything We Know So Far About Christopher Nolan's Upcoming Action Film

Typical of Christopher Nolan's one-word, emblematic movie titles — like Inception, Memento, and Dunkirk — Tenet, defined as a principle or belief, is both specific yet cryptic enough to keep us invested in cracking the riddle for the title's feasible relation to espionage. Reddit threads are already bubbling up in attempts to theorize the meaning behind the title.

We already know that Christopher Nolan loves incorporating concepts about the fluidity of time — but perhaps surprisingly, he's never written a film involving time travel itself. Sure, it's touched upon in the plots of both Interstellar and Inception, though their past and future are depicted only as independent, unalterable, and inaccessible states to escape to from the present. Like in Dunkirk, its anticipated sequel will be based around events of World War II, and according to THR sources, will also incorporate similar time-bending elements as seen in Interstellar. THR claims that embedding these similar time concepts into the plot could likely mean directly impacting these historical events in some way, and is a viable reason why the movie may premiere a sequence explicitly based around time travel.

That's about all we know, actually. But according to Robert Pattinson, the script is "unreal."

"I've been a little weary of doing movies for years and years, but there's just something about Chris Nolan's stuff," he told USA Today. "He seems like the only director now who can do what is essentially a very personal, independent movie that has a huge scale."

Looks like we'll just have to sit tight for the next 14 months before the movie finally hits theaters. Though as Christopher Nolan so wisely stated in 2014 while anticipating the release of Interstellar, "We all want to unwrap our Christmas presents early . . . But we all know we'll be disappointed if we do."