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Official Plot Blurb And Cast Details For Christopher Nolan's Sci-Fi Film Interstellar

Published Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:50:48 -0500

Jessy Williams writes for Bleeding Cool.

The folks over at Paramount have announced that principal photography on Christopher Nolan's Interstellar has begun in Canada.

In short, this means that shooting for the film has started with the cast and crew on-set; it is the point of no return, some might say. Interstellar has an incredible all-star cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow and many others.

After the Dark Knight Trilogy it appears that everyone wants a piece of the Nolan action, and who is to blame them? I think he's a remarkable director who has brought some brilliant stories to the big screen.

The story for Interstellar was based on an idea by Nolan and was originally written by his brother Jonathan, back when Steven Spielberg was tied-in to direct.

The official plot blurb is as follows:

The new script chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

The creative team involved should be more than capable to bring this film to life. Working behind the scenes we have, amongst others, designers who have worked on Gangster Squad, Inception and the soon-to-be-released Elysium.

Interstellar is due for cinema release on November 7th 2014. Here's that press release in full.

Directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan ("Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy), the production will travel the globe and utilize a mixture of 35mm anamorphic and IMAX film photography to bring to the screen a script based on the combination of an original idea by Nolan and an existing script by Jonathan Nolan, originally developed for Paramount Pictures and producer Lynda Obst. The new script chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

"INTERSTELLAR" features a prestigious cast that includes Matthew McConaughey ("Magic Mike," "Mud"), Academy Award® winner Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables," "The Dark Knight Rises"), Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty," "The Tree of Life"), Bill Irwin ("Rachel Getting Married," TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") Academy Award® nominee John Lithgow ("Terms of Endearment," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes") Academy Award® nominee Casey Affleck ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Gone Baby Gone"), David Gyasi ("Cloud Atlas"), Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Mackenzie Foy ("The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 and 2") Timothée Chalamet (TV's "Homeland"), Topher Grace ("Spider-Man 3"), David Oyelowo ("Jack Reacher," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"), Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn ("The Last Picture Show," "The Exorcist"), and Academy Award® winner Michael Caine ("The Cider House Rules," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy).

The film is being produced by Academy Award® nominee Emma Thomas ("Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy) and Lynda Obst ("How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," "The Siege"). Renowned theoretical physicistKip Thorne is consulting on the film as well as serving as executive producer, along with Jake Myers("Jack Reacher," "RED," "RED 2") and Jordan Goldberg ("Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy).

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Fighter"), Academy Award®-nominated production designer Nathan Crowley ("The Dark Knight" Trilogy), Academy Award®-nominated costume designer Mary Zophres ("Gangster Squad," "True Grit") Academy Award®-nominated editor Lee Smith "The Dark Knight" Trilogy," "Elysium,"), Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer ("The Lion King," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy), and Academy Award®-winning visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin ("Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy).

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