
Sator's estranged wife Kat Barton is an art appraiser who authenticated a forged Goya by her friend Arepo, which Sator purchased to blackmail her. Priya reveals that she is also a member of Tenet and the man who inverted her bullets, Russian oligarch Andrei Sator, is communicating with the future. With his handler Neil, he traces them to Priya Singh, an arms dealer in Mumbai. He is recruited by "Tenet", a secretive organization who briefs him on artifacts with "inverted" entropy that move backwards through time. He swallows a suicide pill but wakes up to find it was a fake a test that only he has passed. The Protagonist retrieves an artifact but his team is captured and tortured. He is saved from KORD forces by an unknown operative wearing a red trinket. On a date referred to as "the 14th", the Protagonist leads a covert CIA extraction during a staged terrorist siege at an Opera House in Kyiv. It was nominated for two awards at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning Best Visual Effects, and received other accolades. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its ambition, direction, musical score, visual effects, action sequences, cinematography, and cast performances (particularly Washington and Pattinson), but received criticism on its sound mixing and complicated plot. It was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters during the pandemic and grossed $365 million worldwide on a $200 million budget, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020, but it struggled to break-even.

After being delayed three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and in the United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 65 mm film and IMAX. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Nolan took over five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet 's central ideas for more than a decade. and his production company Syncopy for the film's production and distribution.

Nolan continued his relationship with Warner Bros. The film follows a former CIA agent who is recruited into a secretive organization called "Tenet" who can reverse the flow of time and is trying to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.

A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas.
