Matt Damon has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar in a, no surprise, small undisclosed role that will require about two weeks of shooting.
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. Damon joins Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, Topher Grace, Wes Bentley, David Oyelowo and David Gyasi in the ever-expanding cast.
The news comes from The Playlist who also reports Damon may have finally settled on a directorial debut. Originally, Damon was going to direct Promised Land, but had to hand over the reigns to Gus Van Sant leaving him to only star in the picture.
As for this new picture, the film is titled The Foreigner and was scripted by Oscar-winning Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio, based on a 2008 New Yorker article by David Grann, telling the true story of a man who is gunned down in the escalating violence in Guatemala, and leaves behind a videotape after his death implicating the president, his wife and other close aides in his killing. Eventually a special prosecutor digs deep to find the truth behind the man’s murder. The project is currently set up at Paramount.
