Christopher Nolan Attaches IMAX Camera to Learjet Because He Can

In badass film technology news, Christopher Nolan has taken to the skies for some kind of top secret project involving the already extremely top secret upcoming Interstellar. How badass and how top secret, you ask? Nolan has embedded an IMAX camera in the nose of a learjet airplane for reasons that are still mysterious at this point. There’s one obvious reason — because he’s Christopher Nolan and he can do whatever he pleases, stop asking questions — but in terms of which scenes of Interstellar, and what attaching the camera to the plane will achieve, any guess is good.

Here’s what we do know about the film and its plot, courtesy of WB:

Directed and co-written by Christopher 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 for Paramount 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.

It’s likely that Nolan isn’t just using the IMAX plane for some simple filler shots, but for something big — and something up in the sky, of course. Could it be that the wormhole that takes our intrepid explorers — Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon, to name a few — to other dimensions really exists a lot closer to planet Earth than we anticipated? Or is whatever happening in Interstellar fairly Earth-like, so filming in our familiar atmosphere isn’t a problem? Seriously, nobody knows what’s going on with this plot. Nolan is no stranger to IMAX (The Dark Knight being a great example); whatever he does with the camera-plane is sure to be spectacular — or at least intriguing.

Check out the photos below, courtesy of JoBlo and Interstellar Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Franklin.

Interstellar is in theaters November 7, 2014.