Christopher Nolan occupies a special place in the world of big-budget filmmaking right now. He makes movies with mass appeal that demand you be fully engaged to enjoy them. I'm partial to Memento, The Prestige, and Inception, but even his Batman movies are ambitious, mature, and thematically focused. His next film, Interstellar, looks to continue in that tradition. The film opens in November and there's a new trailer for you to enjoy below.
The story seems to take place in a future where climate change has nearly destroyed the food supply. Matthew McConaughey plays a former pilot who is given the chance to join an expedition to the far reaches of space with the hope of finding a habitable planet to colonize. By doing so, however, he risks never seeing his children again. Co-starring in the film are Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, and Topher Grace among others.
Since Nolan's longtime cinematographer, Wally Pfister, has moved on to directing his own movies, Hoyte Van Hoytema (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) will step in to help craft the visual texture of Interstellar. As with Nolan's last three pictures, select scenes will be shot using IMAX cameras, which seems appropriate for the scope of the story. Hans Zimmer (Composer), Lee Smith (Editor), Nathan Crowley (Production Designer), Emma Thomas (Producer), and Jonathan Nolan (Co-Screenwriter) are all reuniting with Nolan for the film.
I like what I'm seeing so far. Those shots of the spacecraft circling the wormhole are fantastic, and I can't wait to see what's on the other side. I have a funny feeling that most of the scenes in the trailer are taken from the first half of the film, so there should be plenty of surprises in store for us come November 7th.
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