Christopher Nolan is taking his talents to Universal Pictures
Friendship ended with Warner Bros., now Universal is Christopher Nolan's best friend

Well, he really did it. According to Deadline, one of the most financially and critically lucrative filmmaker/studio pairings in recent memory has come to an end, at least temporarily, with Christopher Nolan making good on his threats from last week by taking his next film to Universal rather than Warner Bros.—which has been Nolan’s home for nearly his entire career. Nolan might go back to Warner Bros. later, as he hasn’t signed some kind of exclusivity deal as far as we know, but this is still a particularly dramatic development as far as behind-the-scenes Hollywood drama goes. Filmmakers don’t really ever get the chance to marry themselves to specific studios in exchange for a bottomless stack of blank checks like Nolan did with Warner Bros., and it seems unlikely that anyone else will ever get that kind of sweet deal again. Hell, Disney can’t even guarantee that it will keep the Russo brothers happy and they’ve made an ungodly amount of money for that company.