Many directors like to have loads of projects on the go in various stages of development, but Christopher Nolan prefers to have one at a time that he can devote all his energies to. Since The Dark Knight Rises was released last summer, we haven’t known what Nolan would helm next, but now THR reveals that Chris is taking on Interstellar, based on a script by his brother, Jonathan.

The movie swirls around the ideas of theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist Kip Thorne, with the story involving time travel and alternate dimensions, and sees a group of explorers travelling through a wormhole. That certainly gives plenty of scope for some Inception style visual inventiveness as well as offering plenty of ideas.

I would say we should expect more plot details soon, but known Nolan’s love of secrecy, we probably won’t know much until shortly before it’s released. However if you do want an idea of what we’re dealing with, it’s been suggested you read Kip Thorne’s book, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy.

Spielberg was previously attached to direct, but it’s not clear if he remains involved in any way, although he probably is as it’s said he hatched the original idea for the film. Paramount and Warner Bros will co-produce, but there’s no news on when it might shoot.