But chances are it means another spin on the director's self-important, self-indulgent, Tales of the Unexpected merry-go-round, with a curious supernatural premise giving way to reams of po-faced blather and a lame twist in the tale.
The curious and original premise is that the wall, chimney and floor of Mrs Benjamin's house are worried about the inexplicable disappearance of their owner.
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However curious the book's premise, it works a pretty well-plowed surrealist furrow, hailing back to Kafka and Gogol by way of "My Mother the Car" and "Christine".
Nolan responded: "Exactly, Ken!" More curious still was the premise for the programme, with the peg being that a petition had been launched calling for cyclists to have compulsory tests, licensing and insurance.
The Turner, by contrast, has a curious innocence about it: its unfashionable premise is that quality does matter.
Two shows prove an idealistic premise: if you're patient and curious enough to stick with it, even the most alien world can become a family.
"If you knew me at all, you'd know that I never" — the emphasis was on never — "answer a question based on a false premise," with the last word pronounced with a curious accent on the last syllable, "pre-MIZE".
Proving its soaring popularity, TSOL is expanding to premises all over the world, attracting an international following of curious and hungry minds in the process.
So it is curious that he embodies a contradiction at the heart of their premise: the notion that free thinkers are to be venerated unless and until they challenge the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party.
