{"id":17131,"date":"2013-04-04T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T09:31:58","slug":"the-inspirations-behind-joseph-kosinskis-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2013\/04\/04\/the-inspirations-behind-joseph-kosinskis-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"The big ideas behind Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Kosinski, the director behind upcoming Tom Cruise sci-fi epic Oblivion<\/a> and Tron, talks us through the people and films who\u2019ve shaped his career.<\/p>\n

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Oblivion<\/a>‘s one of the more interesting sci-fi movies to emerge in the past few years – far from the dark underworld of films like Prometheus<\/a> and Alien, Oblivion takes its cues from the lofty, airy architecture of Mies van der Rohe and the expansive vistas of Kubrick and Lawrence of Arabia. Tom Cruise plays Jack Harper one of the last men stationed on a post-apocalyptic Earth, eking out a humdrum existence fixing drones – that is, until he rescues a beautiful stranger (Olga Kurylenko) from a wrecked spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Its director, Joseph Kosinski, studied architecture before making the leap across to filmmaking – so if there was ever a sci-fi epic tailormade for the discerning design crowd, it’s Oblivion. Now in the process of making the third Tron film and promoting Oblivion, he tells us more about the ideas that drove the film to the screen.<\/p>\n

No word on whether the Grimes<\/a> song features in the movie, though.<\/p>\n