New INTERSTELLAR Trailer Shown At Comic-Con

Left to right: Timothée Chalamet, Matthew McConaughey and Mackenzie Foy in INTERSTELLAR; from Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Entertainment.

On Thursday afternoon at Comic Con, director Christopher Nolan and actor Matthew McConaughey made a surprise appearance and brought along the new trailer for one of 2014’s most anticipated films, INTERSTELLAR. It was also the first time either of them had ever been to the yearly convention.

Nolan told the crowd in Hall H, “I wanted to see what the fuss was all about.”

Variety reported that during the Q&A, McConaughey explained his character:

“Cooper is a pilot, an engineer, and a widowed pilot of two children where civilization is just sustaining. There’s food, clean water, but they don’t need any explorers, no new bright ideas. Then something happens and the dream of being a pilot again knocks on his door.” The chance becomes “the greatest mission” he’s ever taken on.

Nolan explained that the spaceship, its interiors and exteriors were designed to be as “realistic as possible for the actors.” That meant actual views out the windows, for example.

As to the footage shown, Adam B. Vary from BuzzFeed says:

The trailer featured brand new scenes of what that mission would entail — with McConaughey and fellow astronauts played by Anne Hathaway and David Oyelowo visiting planets that appear barren, icy, or filled with vast oceans filled with enormous waves. Nolan’s ambition here appears to be nothing less than epic; during the panel, he specifically cited Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as a key inspiration and guide for this movie. “We really have an ambition with this film, not to do what that film did, because I don’t think we ever could,” he said, “but to tell a similarly ambitious story in terms of the scope and scale.”

Watch the trailer from earlier this year HERE.

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn and Michael Caine, the movie chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

INTERSTELLAR opens in cinemas on November 7th, 2014.