Christopher Nolan was tightlipped about “Interstellar,” his closely-guarded new cinematic spectacular. But he did reveal during an onstage interview at CinemaCon on Wednesday that the film deals with wormhole travel.
He downplayed suggestions that the film might have a time travel element, and said that “Interstellar” is about using celestial shortcuts to reach parts of space that might otherwise be inaccessible. Producer Kip Thorne, a noted theoretical physicist, has been consulting on the science behind wormholes.
“It’s something that really looks at who we are as people,” Nolan teased.
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He went on to say that “Interstellar” harkens back to the “golden age of blockbusters,” a time of “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” and one in which the phrase “family film” did not have “pejorative connotations,” he argued.