Christopher Nolan makes his first SDCC appearance and presents a new Interstellar trailer.
Director Christopher Nolan made his first-ever appearance at SDCC 2014 on Thursday, showing up in the cavernous Hall H to discuss his new film, Interstellar, and premiere a brand new trailer for the sci-fi epic.
Nolan has never come to the fan culture extravaganza before, despite becoming an icon to fans for his work on the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception. But he came out this time, along with Interstellar star and fellow first-timer Matthew McConaughey, to promote the heavily anticipated November release.
In his brief discussion with moderator and EW editor Matt Bean, Nolan said he made the film partially because of his love for science fiction and partially out of his concern that our own real-life exploration of space was becoming a thing of the past.
McConaughey stars in the movie as an engineer who is coaxed by a scientist (Michael Caine) to leave his family behind and embark on a time-bending interstellar voyage to find a new world to inhabit, as the situation on an environmentally-damaged Earth becomes more dire. He described Nolan's vision on the film by calling it his "most ambitious" ever.
The new trailer mixed footage we've seen before -- McConaughey saying goodbye to his family, Jessica Chastain watching water-starved crops burn -- with new images that feature more of co-star Anne Hathaway, plus scenes of what appears to be the explorers making their way across the silvery landscape of a new world, encountering bodies of water there and possibly even what looks briefly like a life form.
The new trailer, like the first one, was incredibly impressive -- the term "visionary" gets thrown around a lot, but this time it just might stick.
We will share the trailer as soon as it is released to the public.
Interstellar lands in theaters on Nov. 7.