Christopher Nolan is an insanely talented filmmaker.
A man who dares to weave the big, pressing existential questions of life into both the Hollywood blockbusters and indie movies he makes, he is passionately committed to his craft, wanting to make art as much as a successful movie.
It’s an utterly unique combination, an increasing rarity in an industry where special effects often triumph over characterisation and well-thought out narratives, and one that has brought him and his co-producer, wife Emma Thomas great success and accolades with films like Memento, Insomnia, Inception and the most recent Batman trilogy starring Christian Bale.
And there’s no reason to think it won’t work every bit as well with his upcoming sci-fi drama Interstellar which has just debuted its website, interstellarmovie.com and dropped a teaser trailer all in a very busy couple of days.
There isn’t a whole lot of actual detail to go on admittedly – as always Nolan is playing things very close to his chest – with the trailer more about evoking a mood and sense of possibilities than revealing much about the film itself.
But in this day and age of over-saturation of information, a drip here and there of insight into an upcoming movie, particularly one as anticipated as this, can be a refreshing change.
We do have a brief official synopsis – ” [Interstellar] 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” – and know that it stars some very fine actors, many of whom work with Nolan on a regular basis such as Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine but beyond that very little.
Which given that the movie is all about voyage of discovery into the unknown, deepest reaches of space, is quite apropos don’t you think?
Interstellar zooms mysteriously onto movie screens on 7 November 2014 in USA and in Australia on 6 November 2014.