Christopher Nolan may have found his follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises, as he is in talks to direct the original sci-fi film Interstellar, penned by brother Jonathan Nolan.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, noting that Steven Spielberg was previously attached to direct the project, which involves “time travel and alternate dimensions in a story that sees a group of explorers travel through a wormhole.” It’s unclear if Spielberg will be at all involved with the project.
Jonathan Nolan co-wrote both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, as well as the short story that inspired Christopher Nolan’s Memento. “The script is based on scientific theories developed by a Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, a gravitational physicist and astrophysicist at Caltech,” the report notes.
In the Cal Tech newspaper, Throne was quoted on the project, which he wrote a treatment for, saying of the science in the film, “I like to call it ‘The Warped Side of the Universe,’ which are objects and phenomenon that are made largely warped space and time such as black holes, wormholes, and so on.”
Rope of Silicon came across the article, which goes on to describe the project, which “centers on the discovery of an energy source from the Hawking radiation from a nearby black hole. Extra-dimensional beings that control the black hole may also exist in the plot. Several plot points are allusions to general relativity and parts of Thorne’s research, including the gravitational red shift that occurs when the character is close to the vicinity of the black hole.”
It’s unclear how or if this will change now Nolan is involved, but dealmaking for the project is said to have already been in the works for months, and is reportedly very complex. Interstellar is currently set up at Paramount, but would be made by Paramount and Warner Bros., where Christopher Nolan has his Syncopy banner based.
This news is certainly very exciting, as the Nolan brothers have proved to be a force to be reckoned with when they team up. The “complex and multi-layered nature of the story” remind of Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which should justify anticipation on its own right.
There is currently no word on when production on Interstellar will commence.
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