Interstellar
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
Interstellar (2014)
Production
Budget
$165 000 000
Revenue
$773 889 028
Director
Scenario
Composer
Producer
Actors
Matthew McConaughey
Cooper
Anne Hathaway
Brand
Michael Caine
Professor Brand
Jessica Chastain
Murph
Wes Bentley
Doyle
Topher Grace
Getty
Mackenzie Foy
Murph (10 Yrs.)
Short description
Interstellar is set on a near-future Earth where crop failures and dust storms have brought food production to the brink of collapse. A group of astronauts and scientists travels through a newly discovered wormhole on a mission to find a habitable world beyond the solar system, leaving their families behind on a planet that may not survive their absence. The voyage pushes against the limits of human space travel and against the uncertain nature of the wormhole itself, since no one can say what awaits on the other side.
Christopher Nolan directed the 2014 film from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It is the tenth of the fifteen films he has directed, following The Dark Knight Rises and preceding Quay. Matthew McConaughey plays the former pilot Cooper, with Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck and Wes Bentley among the cast. Nolan produced with Emma Thomas and Lynda Obst.
Made for a budget of 165 million US dollars, the film went on to earn 774 million worldwide. Audience ratings are high: 8.7 out of 10 on IMDb from 2.5 million votes, and 8.5 out of 10 on TMDB from more than 41,000 votes. The critics' rating stands at 7.2 out of 10 from 374 reviews, noticeably lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Irfan Khan was offered a role in the film, but he declined due to scheduling conflicts.
- The screenplay is based on the scientific works of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
- In an early draft of the screenplay, the character of Tina was a boy named Murph.
- The film's 70mm version was shown on only 50 IMAX screens worldwide.
- Christopher Nolan was inspired to create the apocalyptic setting on Earth depicted in the film by a series of catastrophic dust storms that occurred in the United States in the 1930s.
- During filming, pre-created images of the environment were projected onto screens surrounding the set so that the actors, looking out of the spaceship windows, saw a realistic picture instead of a green screen.
- The method of space travel in this film is based on the work of physicist Kip Thorne. The same work also formed the basis for space travel in Carl Sagan's novel 'Contact' and its film adaptation, 'Contact' (1997). Notably, Matthew McConaughey starred in both films.
- Operator Hoyte van Hoytema modified an IMAX camera to allow for handheld shooting of scenes indoors.
- Some of the space scenes were created using footage shot with an IMAX camera mounted on the nose cone of a Learjet aircraft.
- To create the space-time tunnel and black hole, Dr. Kip Thorne worked with visual effects supervisor Paul J. Franklin and his team at Double Negative. Thorne provided the team with theoretical materials, which they then used to create new computer programs accurately modeling these phenomena. Processing some individual frames took up to 100 hours. The total volume of computer graphics program data was 800 terabytes. The result of the work gave Thorne a new perspective on the effect of gravitational lensing and the accretion disks of a black hole. This prompted him to write two scientific papers: one in astrophysics and the other in computer graphics. Thorne also discovered new features of light behavior near the event horizon of a black hole.
- Dust clouds were created using large fans blowing synthetic cellulose-based dust into the air.
- To gain inspiration for a realistic space journey, Christopher Nolan invited former astronaut Marsha Ivins to the set.
- When designing the buildings in the film, the creators were inspired by the works of modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
- In one scene, Anne Hathaway had to submerge herself in icy water (filmed in Iceland). Her spacesuit leaked, and after several hours of filming, Anne wasn’t sure if she could feel her toes.
- At the beginning of the film, McConaughey's character flips a coin to the very end of the dusty road; in the next shot, the coin is in the middle of it.
- When Cooper comforts his daughter, the chain around her neck changes position: it's sometimes under her shirt and sometimes on top, depending on the angle.
- In one scene of the film, before the protagonist gives his daughter a wristwatch, he hugs her with the hand on which the watch is worn, and the position of the hands on the watch face is visible. In the next shot, when the same watch is handed over, the hands are already in a completely different position, although a very short time has passed.
- On the ice planet, Mann pushes Cooper off a cliff, but in the following scenes of their fight, the terrain is simply hilly, with no cliff in sight.
- The landing scheme for a water planet, drawn by Kup, looks different by the end of the episode (the circle is wider).
- Steven Spielberg was attached to the project since 2006 and hired Jonathan Nolan to write the screenplay, but postponed work and focused on other films. In 2012, after Spielberg left, Jonathan Nolan suggested hiring his brother Christopher Nolan as director.
- When Spielberg was still attached as director, he intended to cast Will Smith in the lead role. Later, after Spielberg stepped down as director, the role went to Matthew McConaughey.
- During filming, Matthew McConaughey preferred a trailer near the house where his character lived to a hotel room.
- This is the first film by Christopher Nolan, since 'Following' (1998), shot without cinematographer Wally Pfister. Instead of Pfister, Nolan hired cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema.
- The film was originally being developed by Paramount Pictures. When Christopher Nolan took the director's chair, Warner Bros., which had released his recent films, secured involvement in the project. In exchange for international distribution rights, Warner Bros. gave Paramount Pictures rights to co-finance future sequels to 'Friday the 13th' (2009) and 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut' (1999).
- Christopher Nolan chose Matthew McConaughey for the role of Cooper after seeing his performance in 'Mud' (2012).
- To offer Jessica Chastain the role, Christopher Nolan sent an assistant to Ireland, where she was filming 'Miss Julie' (2014) at the time, with a script watermarked with the actress’s name. Chastain was not allowed to keep the script after reading it.
- Some "archival footage" seen in the trailer was actually shot during the making of this film and then processed with visual effects to appear older.
- The film was shot under the working title "Flora's Letter." This title was chosen in honor of Christopher Nolan's daughter, who is named Flora.
- Christopher Nolan noted that when creating "Interstellar," he drew inspiration from films such as: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1947), "The Right Stuff" (1983), "Alien" (1979), and "Blade Runner" (1982).
- Before filming began, Christopher Nolan showed the actors "The Right Stuff" (1983) to help them better understand their roles in the film.
- The method of space travel in this film is based on the work of physicist Kip Thorne. The same work also served as the basis for space travel in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" and its film adaptation, "Contact" (1997).
- Starting in 2014, Paramount Pictures began to phase out the release of films on traditional film in favor of digital formats. However, Christopher Nolan, a staunch advocate for using film, insisted that “Interstellar” (2014) also be released in 15/70mm IMAX, 70mm, and 35mm formats, and shown in these formats for two full days before the digital release.
- The lines frequently quoted in the film, beginning with “Do not go gentle into that good night,” are taken from Dylan Thomas's poem.
- The scene explaining the principle of spatial movement using a sheet of paper is a copy of a scene from the film “Event Horizon” (1997).
- In the scene where Dr. Mann, after docking with the “Endurance,” attempts to enter the ship, he is in the docking bay connecting the two modules. Given the ship's design, Mann should have tried to open the door to his right or left. Instead, he opened the door directly in front of him, which apparently led into open space.
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