After casting news last week that Matthew McConaughey has joined Christopher Nolan‘s next ambitious project, Interstellar, today brings news that Anne Hathaway has hopped aboard as well. While there are still precious few details about the film, we do know that it’ll hover in the sci-fi genre and tackle time travel, worm holes, alternative realities and the like.

Nolan has a penchant for onion-like stories shrouded in mystery and is known for playing things close to his chest so don’t expect many details to leak about the project until the big man wants them to. After a resounding success with the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception both, Nolan has proved his weight in gold which is why he’s one of the few working directors who can pull a massive budget for a non-established, non-franchise film.

While I still can’t help but shake my natural bitterness towards Hathaway’s sugar-coated-princess persona, I do think she has been showing her worth as an actress, particularly with her go as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises and her Oscar winning sad-sack-sing-song-performance in the feel-good, super-uplifting Les Miserables. While I would have had more reservations before her surprisingly pleasant turns this year, it seems that Hathaway won Nolan over and he is certainly a director who likes to revisit actors/actresses he’s worked with before- see Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Christian Bale, Ken Watanabe .

Outside of this tidbit of casting news, Nolan has also reportedly been scouting out shooting locations in Iceland, a destination that seems to be transforming into the go-to locale for sci-fi shoots- see Prometheus, Oblivion, Game of Thrones and Darren Aronofsky‘s upcoming Noah.

Don’t get too excited quite yet because Interstellar won’t come to theaters until November 7, 2014.  Until then, we’ll just have to play the waiting game.

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