After casting both Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, block-busting guru Christopher Nolan has added two new faces to his sci-fi alternate reality flick Instellar– Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain. Caine comes as no surprise as he has been in every Nolan flick since Batman Begins and obviously has a great working relationship with Nolan. I personally love when a filmmaker has a troupe of actors that they can round up whenever something comes along. Up to this point, Caine has been a brilliant addition to all of Nolan’s work and offers up a grounding emotional side to the more action-heavy fare.

Chastain, on the other hand, is a new addition to the Nolan ship and a great bit of casting in my opinion. Nolan’s been notoriously weak with his female characters and casting a top notch thespian like Chastain is sure to prove an effective measure to bolster that feminine presence onscreen. Chastain has been nominated for an Oscar the past two years in a row with her work on The Help and Zero Dark Thirty and is one of the best working actresses of today.

Although Nolan has had little fanfare for the award’s market with his films, he nabbed a Best Supporting for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and has always been heralded by critics and fans alike as a more intelligent breed of big action film-making. 

Working off of a script written by younger brother Jonathan Nolan, Chris Nolan will be sure to make this film both a visual and visceral flick made for the biggest screen possible. It’s sure to be no surprise that Nolan is pursuing an IMAX format for the film and will be sure to film a vast portion of the big action sequences with the IMAX cameras, regardless of how clunky and noisy they may be during the actual production.

Follow Silver Screen Riot on Facebook
Follow Silver Screen Riot on Twitter