The Nolan brothers have a new movie in the works: Interstellar

[destrekor]

IGN

Christopher Nolan to direct a movie written by Jon Nolan (Christopher may receive some writing credits to, sometimes he does).

time travel, wormholes, space, sci-fi, the Nolans... woah!


After their films Memento, The Prestige, and Inception... I think I'm ready to be blown away by whatever it is. Pretty much guaranteed to be a good mind-binder.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Oh god, I cant get enough of time travel movies, and now C Nolan is making one? AAAA
Wish I could time travel to the movie release date

 

[Kadarin]

Sounds good that they ditched Spielberg as director.

 

[techs]

So its based on the theoretical work of physicist Kip Thorne:

Thorne was one of the first people to conduct scientific research on whether the laws of physics permit space and time to be multiply connected (can there exist classical, traversable wormholes and "time machines"?). With Sung-Won Kim, Thorne identified a universal physical mechanism (the explosive growth of vacuum polarization of quantum fields), that may always prevent spacetime from developing closed timelike curves (i.e., prevent "backward time travel"). With Mike Morris and Ulvi Yurtsever he showed that traversable Lorentzian wormholes can exist in the structure of spacetime only if they are threaded by quantum fields in quantum states that violate the averaged null energy condition (i.e. have negative renormalized energy spread over a sufficiently large region). This has triggered research to explore the ability of quantum fields to possess such extended negative energy. Recent calculations by Thorne indicate that simple masses passing through traversable wormholes could never engender paradoxes — there are no initial conditions that lead to paradox once time travel is introduced. If his results can be generalised, they would suggest that none of the supposed paradoxes formulated in time travel stories can actually be formulated at a precise physical level: that is, that any situation in a time travel story turns out to permit many consistent solutions.



Oh, now I get.
(no I don't. head exploded)

 

[clamum]

Movie will probably be epic.

 

[Red Storm]

Will watch.

 

[Printer Bandit]

after prometheus, i know not to get my hopes up.

 

[phucheneh]

after prometheus, i know not to get my hopes up.

What in the world does that have to do with anything?

IMO Chris Nolan's track record is flawless. A couple of his movies have not been super-duper-awesome-great, but they've all been pretty damned good. Don't know much about his brother aside from that they sometimes co-write.

Prometheus was dodgy from the start. Getting rewrites from a hack and having a director who's better with effects and looking pretty than...directing...didn't exactly help.