“We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with The Dark Knight and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

The words of director Christopher Nolan, as chronicled in a new preview piece on the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog. For his next trick, Nolan set out to deliver a movie on an enormous scale. And so far, the enigmatic trailer and mysterious time and space-bending premise of Inception have more than ignited the fires of interest here in the blogosphere.

In describing the origin of the film, Nolan cites a long love affair with the work of Ian Fleming, and the globe-trotting nature of James Bond. “I grew up watching James Bond films,” he explains. “And loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility…. We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”

As Hero Complex’s Geoff Boucher points out, Nolan’s next seems to take notes not only from Fleming, but from the likes of the Wachowski Brothers and Sigmund Freud as well. It is The Matrix, Videodrome and Never Say Never Again. But bigger in scale than The Dark Knight, set in four dimensions.

Sounds huge. I can’t wait.