Jonah Nolan has been hired to write
Interstellar, a space adventure that revolves around explorers who travel through a worm hole into another dimension.
Steven Spielberg is currently attached to direct. The idea came about when Spielberg attended a scientific workshop, where a theory from physicist
Kip S. Thorne who stated that wormholes do indeed exist and could indeed be used for time travel. This revelation fascinated the director. Nolan, who is of course the brother of director
Christopher Nolan, wrote the scripts for
The Prestige and
The Dark Knight and was also the guy responsible for the original short story for
Memento which his brother adapted into a kick ass film. So, I guess Spielberg hasn't completely lost his sense of wonder and imagination. Hopefully he won't treat this film with as much pessimism as he did with
War of the Worlds (which I thought was a good movie by the way) and instead gives us a film that justifies it's fascinating subject matter. We won't see this for a while though.
Indy Jones IV and
Abraham Lincolon biopic will come before this, tentatively scheduled for 2009. source -
coming soon,
variety