Paramount Pictures and IMAX Invite Fans to a First Look at Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

By: Oct. 06, 2014
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Paramount Pictures has partnered with Imax on a first-of-its-kind OCULUS Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) experience for Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated "INTERSTELLAR." The OCULUS Rift DK2 traveling exhibit gives fans a virtual first look at the new film through an immersive experience at select AMC Theatre locations featuring Imax screens.

The tour kicks off in New York, with stops in Houston and Los Angeles, before landing at the Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center. Users in these cities will sit down, strap in, and travel in the film's Endurance spacecraft in zero GRAVITY with a custom OCULUS Rift DK2.

The film hits theaters and Imax on November 7th. Get a first look below!

Directed and co-written by Nolan ("Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy), the production will travel the globe and utilize a mixture of 35mm anamorphic and Imax film photography to bring to the screen a script based on the combination of an original idea by Nolan and an existing script by Jonathan Nolan, originally developed forParamount Pictures and producer Lynda Obst. The new script 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.

"INTERSTELLAR" features a prestigious cast that includes Matthew McConaughey ("Magic Mike," "Mud"), Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables," "The Dark Knight Rises"), Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty," "The Tree of Life"), Bill Irwin ("Rachel Getting Married," TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") Academy Award nominee John Lithgow ("Terms of Endearment," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes") Academy Award nominee Casey Affleck ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Gone Baby Gone"), David Gyasi ("Cloud Atlas"), Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Mackenzie Foy ("The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2") Timothe Chalamet (TV's "Homeland"), Topher Grace ("Spider-Man 3"), David Oyelowo ("Jack Reacher," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"), Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn ("The Last Picture Show," "The Exorcist"), and Academy Award winner Michael Caine ("The Cider House Rules," "The Dark Knight"

The exhibit will be open from 11:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. local time at the following locations:

New York AMC LINCOLN Square 13 October 6 - 8

Houston

AMC Gulf Pointe 30 October 17 - 19
Los Angeles AMC City Walk October 25 - 27
Chantilly, VA Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center November 5 -19

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