sports fan of contemporary prestigefilmmakingare familiar with brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan , who have co - compose films include " The Prestige , " " The Dark Knight " ( with David S. Goyer ) and " Interstellar " — all of which were directed by Christopher . The two brothers have also worked severally : Christopher has directed multiplefilmsthat he wrote solo , include " origin , " " Dunkirk " and " Tenet . " Jonathan Nolan has create TV series such as " Person of Interest , " " Westworld " and " Fallout " ( the latter two with Lisa Joy ) .
However , most citizenry are believably not aware that there is a third brother in the Nolan menage , and his celebrity ( to the arcdegree that he has it ) does not come from the amusement diligence . Matthew Nolan , the eldest of the Nolan brother , has quite a checker past . Here is his strange news report .
Who Is Matthew Nolan?
Matthew Nolan , born in 1968 , is a British American adult male best known as the eldest blood brother of writer / directorChristopher Nolan , born in 1970 , andJonathan Nolan , born in 1976 . The pal have an English Padre and an American mother . They were raised in London and had extended childhood stays with their mother ’s kin in the Chicago suburbia of Evanston , Illinois .
Matthew Nolansettled in Chicagoand worked as a attribute developer . He married an American woman in 1999 . His flight seems to have switch in the early 2000s when he became involved with a precious stone monger from Florida name Robert Breska , who himself had a background signal as a drug vender .
An Unholy Trinity: Matthew Nolan, Robert Breska and Robert Cohen
consort tocourt records , in or around 2004 , Robert Breska accused his accountant Robert Cohen of steal approximately $ 7 million from his cant accounts . Cohen countered that it was his Costa Rican business spouse , Mario Quintana , who ’d stolen Breska ’s money . Not long after , Quintana turn up dead . The official account was that Quintana had entrust suicide , but Cohen feared something more sinister .
Meanwhile , Breska remained fixated on the idea that Cohen had his money and that retrieving it was still a possibility . At this point , Matthew Nolan enter the picture . Breska insert him to Cohen under the fake name of Matthew McCall Oppenheimer , as an heir to theOppenheimer rhombus luck .
A Timeline of Suspect Travel
On March 6 , 2005 , Robert Cohen seems to havetaken a meetingwith " Matthew Oppenheimer " ( actually Matthew Nolan ) in San Jose , Costa Rica .
Also present was Luis Alonso Douglas Mejia , a hotel bellboy allegedly conspiring with Nolan . Video evidence proffer in courtpurportsto show Nolan and Mejiawith Cohenin the parking lot of a San Jose shopping center , the last time Cohen was seen live . Hours later , Nolan was on a carpenter’s plane to Houston , Texas .
Again percourt disc , within three days , he was back in Costa Rica , where he once again met up with Mejia , who was hold Robert Cohen captive . On March 10 , Costa Rican authorities hear Cohen ’s deadened soundbox . He appeared to haveperishedfrom organ failure stemming from stern beatings and twisting . The next day , Nolan left the country once again .
The Aftermath of Robert Cohen’s Killing
Luis Alonso Douglas Mejia wasconvictedof Cohen ’s murder by a Costa Rican courtroom and sentenced to jailhouse . Meanwhile , Nolan , as would later bedisclosed by an American judge , continued his efforts to locate Robert Breska ’s money .
Nolan spent the next four years as a free man , but in 2009 he and his married woman file away for bankruptcy . He was trapped by FBI agent Pablo Araya , who ’d been investigating the Cohen murder and discovered Nolan was due to attend his own bankruptcy earreach in Chicago . He wasarrestedand taken into custody .
Costa Ricarequestedthat Nolan be extradited to stand trial in their court system . While an American evaluator reviewed Nolan ’s pillowcase , he was confine to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago .
At that point , his story consider another spin .
Matthew Nolan’s Attempted Prison Break
The judge overseeing Nolan ’s casedid not findsufficient evidence to extradite him to Costa Rica . The Costa Rican authoritiesabandonedtheir asking in 2010 and Nolan could have walk free at that point , but he ’d already been turn back a 2d time . The charge ? Trying tobreak outof the Metropolitan Correctional Center .
In the free fall of 2009 , Nolan was found with whatNBC Chicago reportedas " a razor , a harness , a metal clipping ( to unlock cuff ) , and 31 animal foot [ 9.4 m ] of rope made from bedsheets . " He pleaded guilty to possess contraband in slammer and obstruction of justice . In July of 2010Nolan was sentencedto 14 month in prison for his somewhat Batman - corresponding escape attempt .
Matthew Nolan Today
Matthew Nolan was never deport to Costa Rica . In 2014 , hesuedthe United States , accusing the Bureau of Prisons of " physical , psychological and psychiatric injury " during his time in the Metropolitan Correctional Center . The case drop behind on for several years , and its final outcome appears hidden from public record .
To no one ’s surprise , Matthew Nolan remains unaffiliated with his brothers ' filmmaking careers .
