Anne Hathaway Reuniting with Christopher Nolan, Her 'The Dark Knight Rises' Director, for 'Interstellar'

Even though James Bond fans were hoping that Christopher Nolan would step in to direct the next Bond film after Sam Mendes announced he wouldn't helm it (since only British directors are allowed to direct Bond movies), the visionary director is going to make an original film instead of an installment of a franchise. Interstellar, a movie that possibly deals with black holes and time travel, will be that film, with Matthew McConaughey already being confirmed as a lead.

On Tuesday, Deadline got the scoop that Anne Hathaway would be reuniting with Nolan for Interstellar. The two previously worked together when Nolan and Hathaway reinvented the Catwoman character for The Dark Knight Rises. Head past the jump to read what Deadline has to say about Interstellar.

The film is a co-production between Paramount and Warner Bros and was originally set up in 2006 by Steven Spielberg, when Paramount owned DreamWorks, and after Spielberg became intrigued by Caltech physicist and relativity expert Kip S. Thorne and his scientific theory that wormholes exist and can be used for time travel. Spielberg set Jonah Nolan to write the script, which made it easy for Christopher Nolan to come aboard after Spielberg left the project. After all, the Nolan siblings have a collaborative track record, with Jonah hatching the short story that became Christopher’s first hit Memento, and following that with two Batfilms and The Prestige. Christopher Nolan signed on in January to write a script that merged an original idea of his with the script that Jonah wrote. The ambition is a film that will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.