'Interstellar' Movie News: Christopher Nolan Film Similar To '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Audience Becomes 'Lost' In It [VIDEO]
It seems like yet again director Christopher Nolan will be looking to blow our minds. Whether it was with the pop culture phenomenons like The Dark Knight or Inception or the massively popular The Dark Knight Rises, it seems like the journey will go even deeper in his next science fiction film.
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Interstellar, which stars recent Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey in the lead role, could be Nolan's most ambitious film ever. From the scope of the trailers and the movies he references in interviews, Nolan is looking to go big. In an Entertainment Weekly cover on Thursday, Nolan talked about what fans could expect from the sci-fi epic.
"This is the first film I have made where the actual experience of the film is paramount to the audience," Nolan said.
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"You would think that's the case with Batman movies but it's not; they're more dependent on the reaction of characters on screen. Interstellar is different. It harkens back to the direct experience films of 2001, where you're not just experiencing it through the characters, you are lost in it."
He added that the experience is meant for IMAX as he shot over an hour of footage in that format.
Nolan also talked about what the film is really about once you peel back the sci-fi layers that are on the outside, because it is always about humans.
"The film is about human nature, what it means to be human. It sounds like a very grand statement, but I don't intend it to be. I mean it in the way, say, Treasure of the Sierra Madre is about dramatizing ideas of human nature," he said.
"When you take an audience far away from human experience as possible, you wind up focusing very tightly on human nature and how we are connected to each other. What the film tries to do is to be very honest in that appraisal."
McConaughey added that this film is deeply personal to Nolan and there isn't an experience like it that he has been apart of.
"Nobody is able to put more scope, scale, awe on screen than Chris," McConaughey said. "But I think he was wanting to take the next step, toward something more intimate. It was an evolution."
Interstellar hits theaters on Nov. 5.
