Nolan gearing up to warp with Interstellar

Science Fiction may never have been quite so alive and well as it is now, and one of the most intriguing of the next crop of Hollywood pictures comes from Dark Knight powerhouse Christopher Nolan. His next film will be a far flung science fiction picture called Interstellar, about a group of space explorers travelling through a wormhole, inspired by the research of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne. Few plot details are known, but the logline implies a pretty vast canvas: “A heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.” Evidently the picture is so big that it’s going to take two studios to release it. Paramount and Warner Bros. will co-produce and distribute. The last really huge co-studio venture was for Jim Cameron’s Titanic. Interstellar already has a November 7^th, 2014 release date and casting is in full swing. Matthew McConaughey will star (a character name of Cooper has emerged), and Anne Hathaway is reportedly now boarding the project. The feeling is that Nolan is going to attempt something even more ambitious than Avatar, and the idea of him behind a gigantic, visionary deep space picture has me salivating with glee.