Matthew McConaughey Joins Gus Van Sant's 'Sea Of Trees'

Briefly: The past couple years have seen Matthew McCaonaughey evolve into a barometer of quality — in short, if the guy's in a movie (or TV show) you should probably see it. His True Detective is owning HBO right now, and he'll appear in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar later this year.

Now McConaughey is part of another new project: Gus Van Sant's new film Sea of Trees. The story was scripted by Chris Sparling, and sounds a bit like a Haruki Murakami novel. The plot sees one man (McConaughey) planning to kill himself in the forest at the base of Mount Fuji. There, in the "sea of trees," he finds another man (Ken Watanabe) who has been contemplating his own suicide. The two men "begin a journey of reflection and survival."  [The Wrap]