Matt Damon joins Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

Matt Damon has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster 'Interstellar', according to reports.

The Playlist is claiming the exclusive on this one, citing the 'Bourne' star as the latest to join Nolan's growing – and increasingly dazzling – cast.

So far Matthew McConnaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo and Michael Caine are among Nolan's players.

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However, it's thought that Damon's role is not one of the film's most important, though he will be traveling to Iceland for two weeks of the film's sturdy four month shoot.

As is customary with Nolan's projects, very little has been revealed of its plot so far.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film 'chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who use a wormhole to surpass the limits of human space travel and conquer vast distances on an interstellar voyage'.

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It's thought that time travel and alternate dimensions are involved in what sounds like a project on a creative par with his mind-bending cerebral actioner 'Inception'.

All those involved are saying precisely nothing about the project.

McConnaughey would say simply 'I'm confirming' about his role, while Brit actor Oyelowo said: “If I told you anything about it, I think the ground underneath me would open up, and I'd be swallowed up.”

That could be the best we're going to get for now.

Co-producing is Nolan's wife and business partner Emma Thomas, while his long-term collaborator Hans Zimmer is on the score.

It's due for release through Warner Bros on November 7, 2014.