Five Amazing Things About The New Interstellar Trailer

A while back, we got a super-cryptic teaser for Christopher Nolan’s first post-Bat movie ‘Interstellar’.

With a voice-over laid atop archive footage, and a brief shot of a rather upset-looking Matthew McConaughey, it was frustrating.

But the first proper look at what the notoriously secretive director has in mind for his forthcoming mind-bender delivers the goods. Well, some of the goods…

Here’s five great things about it:

It looks beautiful…

All-American vistas populate this first look. A baseball diamond, rolling fields of corn, a shuttle take-off. Usually, he’s in bed with cinematographer Wally Pfister, but as Pfister was off making his directorial debut with ‘Transcendence’, Nolan has gone with Swiss-born Hoyte van Hoytema, who framed the sumptuous ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’, ‘Her’ for Spike Jonze and the stunning ‘Let The Right One In’. 

It’s apocalyptic…

Nolan’s take on the end of the world is always going to be interesting, and something as mundane as food shortages coupled with extremes of weather sound more like a Nolan vision of an approaching apocalypse than hurtling meteorites and Bon Jovi.

Are those some kind of time travel vessels?

Vessels that traverse the fabric of time vary from movie to movie (from DeLoreans to old school telephone boxes), but these interstellar travel capsules filled with liquid look particularly intriguing.

His name is Michael Caine…

Michael Caine’s emotionally pained cockney butler Alfred from the Dark Knight trilogy - made mildly more iconic thanks to Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon’s excellent facsimiles of him on ‘The Trip’ - has been replaced with an altogether more refined character. Of course, we don’t know who he’s playing yet. This is a Nolan film. But it sounds like he’s the Professor with the plan.

It’s a love story…

With Inception, Nolan balanced sky-high concept with a central love story, and it seems he’s at it again, using the love between McConaughey and his daughter Murphy pitched against interstellar time-travel to ramp up the drama. It seems his character Cooper has an almost impossible choice to make if he’s to save the species.

Also starring Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo and Matt Damon in a small role, ‘Interstellar’ is due out on 7 November.

Photos: Warner Bros.