Christopher Nolan's $774M Epic Sci-Fi That Paved The Way For Project Hail Mary Releases On Hulu Next Week

A seminal Christopher Nolan sci-fi is coming to Hulu.

Nolan is one of the most celebrated and popular directors working in Hollywood, recently achieving success and critical acclaim with Oppenheimer (2023). He’s next set to release The Odyssey on July 17, a star-studded historical epic. Though Nolan’s latest efforts have been period pieces, he has a great deal of experience working in the sci-fi genre, including 2020’s underrated Tenet. It’s one of his mid-2010s efforts, however, that remains his most noteworthy sci-fi endeavor.

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12 years after hitting theaters, Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) is set to arrive on Hulu on July 1. The outer space epic is among a swathe of films set to arrive on the platform on the first of the movie, including the first two Iron Man movies, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the first two Bad Boys movies, Titanic (1997), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), among many others.

Serving as Nolan’s follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar remains one of his most celebrated releases. The film has a lukewarm 73% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, but the Popcornmeter is higher at 87%, and audience warmth toward the movie seems to have only grown in the years since its release.

Starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, the Nolan sci-fi follows a team of astronauts as they leave a dying Earth on a mission to find a new home for humanity. Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, and David Gyasi, among others, round out the rest of the cast.

Made on an estimated budget of $165 million, Interstellar grossed a strong $774 million worldwide at the box office, making it a major success. It also continues to play regularly in theaters across North America and beyond. Screenings of Interstellar at the BFI Imax in London continue to draw large crowds even more than a decade after the film’s release.

Interstellar‘s success proved that, under the right circumstances, audience interest in space epics remains high. Project Hail Mary was a major success in theaters earlier this year. That film, which stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut attempting to restart Earht’s sun, is more comedic than Interstellar but features a similarly epic scale, and it grossed $682 million worldwide.

Given Oppenheimer, an R-rated historical drama, surpassed Interstellar at the box office, it’s very likely that The Odyssey is going to surpass both, further cementing Nolan as one of the most in-demand directors working today. Interstellar, though, is sure to remain a Nolan favorite.