SAN DIEGO (AP) – Christopher Nolan and Matthew McConaughey came to Comic-Con unannounced and surprised attendees with a first look at “Interstellar,” but neither offered many details about the highly anticipated space adventure.
“I can tell you a lot, but I’m not going to,” McConaughey said at Thursday’s Paramount Pictures panel.
The Oscar winner plays a pilot and engineer grounded in a dystopian land where all space exploration has ceased. His character is a widowed father of two who is given an opportunity to travel into the stars long after he gave up his dreams of flight.
“It’s by far the most ambitious film Mr. Nolan has ever directed,” McConaughey said before the director of “Inception” and “The Dark Knight” trilogy emerged on stage for his first Comic-Con appearance.
“We thought it’d be fun to come down and see what all the fuss is about,” Nolan said to raucous applause. “It’s an incredible event. There’s nothing like it anywhere in the world.”