Christopher Nolan’s latest scifi adventure is expected to break his own records at the box office.
Variety reports Nolan’s “Interstellar” starring McConaughey and Anne Hathaway is expected to pull in more than $50 million to theaters on Nov. 7, just inching out the director’s “Batman Begins” debut at $48 million.
Nolan’s “Interstellar” cost Paramount studios more than $170 million to make, so they production is banking on a huge domestic and foreign release. Nolan recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his upcoming project, which he had been sitting on until the right opportunity presented itself.
“I'd been hearing about Interstellar for years while he was working with Kip Thorne,” Nolan explained. “I always thought it sounded like a very exciting project — certainly it's a good sign if your brother's working on something [with Spielberg]. When I saw the opportunity to get involved, I didn't hesitate. I always loved science fiction.
“One of my earliest movie memories is my dad taking me to see 2001 in [London's] Leicester Square on the big screen. It was such an extraordinary feeling: to be taken off this planet and to the furthest reaches of the universe. It has really been an ambition of mine: If I ever had the opportunity to get involved in a large-scale science fiction project, something about exploring our universe, I would try to seize the opportunity.”
The director didn’t want to shy away from the science behind the film, adding there are different ways to address the grandness of time travel and space exploration.
“Kip's research into the mathematical possibility of wormholes, the fact they can exist, gives you a way that this could happen and was essential to the jumping-off point in the story,” he said. “When I came to the project, [Kip] and Jonah had worked on a vast array of ideas involving a lot of the different things you're talking about. And one of the most important parts of my job was to say: "OK, we can't use all of this. I'm going to have to choose."
