>I was involved with ‘Interstellar’ for a year … and I became fascinated with it, I spent a lot of time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, talking to the scientists there and the aerospace engineers.
>I actually hired Chris Nolan’s brother Jonathan to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn’t stick. Jonah actually said, ‘If there comes a point where you decide not to make this movie, I can tell you who’s gonna grab it. He’s already bugging me about it. And that’s my brother Chris.
>He was absolutely right, The second I decided not to make it, Chris jumped on board, probably the next day. ‘Interstellar’ was a much better movie in Chris Nolan’s hands than it would have been in mine.
[Nolan talking about it with Timothee Chalamet:](https://youtu.be/McjAT58xOY4?si=mo3DuhXEFfWcIKn2&t=213)
> Right after we collaborated on ‘Dark Knight,’ my brother got the job and went to work with Steven Spielberg. He worked on it for a lot of years, It had incredible ideas and moved through all these different iterations, but until Steven was ready to make it, whatever it is, it never quite got that momentum. Steven went off to do another film, so it became available. I had a lot of conversations with Jonathan over the years and what he was doing and what his ambitions was. I was excited by it.
> I was incredibly struck by his first act. I had been working on a time travel idea … things looking at time. I had half-baked projects that I hadn’t committed to. When it became available, it was a case of me saying to Jonathan, ‘How would you feel if I took this and tried to combine it with some of my ideas and change a bit with what it was?’ He was fine with it. He could tell the spirit of what I was trying to do was to get to what he was initially excited about it.
riegspsych325 on
I was in high school when I first heard the news that Spielberg was making this. I was very excited to see him return to hard sci-fi again, especially as the goal was to be grounded and be based on real science. But then the movie just spent years on the back burner like so many Spielberg flicks, I didn’t think we’d ever see the light of day
But when Chris Nolan came along to work on it since Jonah Nolan worked on the script, I was so happy. It’s one of the few movies I got to witness go through development hell (albeit a light case compared to others) and come out clean on the other side
It was the movie my sophomore self wanted to see and then some. Spielberg’s words of admiration are on point, and it actually reminds me of Cameron saying as much when he talked about missing out on the rights to adapt Jurassic Park
mikeyfreshh on
This feels like the exact inverse of Kubrick developing AI before handing it off to Spielberg
Chessh2036 on
My favorite Nolan movie. As great as Spielberg is (duh lol) I do agree with him, Christopher Nolan was the right man for it.
(And god that soundtrack is incredible)
DyingSunSeverian on
Spielberg’s sci fi has never been that robust as far as the technical aspects, he’s very much like his friend George Lucas, where these are really big fantasy stories with some “sci-fi” trappings we’re used to like spaceships and space aliens.
confusing_roundabout on
I love this movie. I watched it again a few days ago and honestly I think it gets better every time I see it.
NATHAN4U007 on
Speilberg seem to love where Villeuneuve and Nolan has taken the modern sci fi blockbuster after him. All three coming out with big blockbusters this year too.
SillyMikey on
I don’t know when it happened but at one point, Steven Spielberg movies just became dull to me.
Famous-Country-4921 on
I liked Interstellar when I first watched it but it was never at the top of Nolan’s filmography for me.
Having rewatched multiple times over the years though it’s actually become one of my all-time favourite movies, period.
Vladmerius on
This explains why it feels like Christopher Nolans take on a Spielberg movie. The movie got a lot of hate when it first released from sci-fi nerds being annoyed at the third act power of love trope. Meanwhile I found it to be one of Nolans best movies because it had some heart to it.
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Spielberg:
>I was involved with ‘Interstellar’ for a year … and I became fascinated with it, I spent a lot of time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, talking to the scientists there and the aerospace engineers.
>I actually hired Chris Nolan’s brother Jonathan to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn’t stick. Jonah actually said, ‘If there comes a point where you decide not to make this movie, I can tell you who’s gonna grab it. He’s already bugging me about it. And that’s my brother Chris.
>He was absolutely right, The second I decided not to make it, Chris jumped on board, probably the next day. ‘Interstellar’ was a much better movie in Chris Nolan’s hands than it would have been in mine.
[Nolan talking about it with Timothee Chalamet:](https://youtu.be/McjAT58xOY4?si=mo3DuhXEFfWcIKn2&t=213)
> Right after we collaborated on ‘Dark Knight,’ my brother got the job and went to work with Steven Spielberg. He worked on it for a lot of years, It had incredible ideas and moved through all these different iterations, but until Steven was ready to make it, whatever it is, it never quite got that momentum. Steven went off to do another film, so it became available. I had a lot of conversations with Jonathan over the years and what he was doing and what his ambitions was. I was excited by it.
> I was incredibly struck by his first act. I had been working on a time travel idea … things looking at time. I had half-baked projects that I hadn’t committed to. When it became available, it was a case of me saying to Jonathan, ‘How would you feel if I took this and tried to combine it with some of my ideas and change a bit with what it was?’ He was fine with it. He could tell the spirit of what I was trying to do was to get to what he was initially excited about it.
I was in high school when I first heard the news that Spielberg was making this. I was very excited to see him return to hard sci-fi again, especially as the goal was to be grounded and be based on real science. But then the movie just spent years on the back burner like so many Spielberg flicks, I didn’t think we’d ever see the light of day
But when Chris Nolan came along to work on it since Jonah Nolan worked on the script, I was so happy. It’s one of the few movies I got to witness go through development hell (albeit a light case compared to others) and come out clean on the other side
It was the movie my sophomore self wanted to see and then some. Spielberg’s words of admiration are on point, and it actually reminds me of Cameron saying as much when he talked about missing out on the rights to adapt Jurassic Park
This feels like the exact inverse of Kubrick developing AI before handing it off to Spielberg
My favorite Nolan movie. As great as Spielberg is (duh lol) I do agree with him, Christopher Nolan was the right man for it.
(And god that soundtrack is incredible)
Spielberg’s sci fi has never been that robust as far as the technical aspects, he’s very much like his friend George Lucas, where these are really big fantasy stories with some “sci-fi” trappings we’re used to like spaceships and space aliens.
I love this movie. I watched it again a few days ago and honestly I think it gets better every time I see it.
Speilberg seem to love where Villeuneuve and Nolan has taken the modern sci fi blockbuster after him. All three coming out with big blockbusters this year too.
I don’t know when it happened but at one point, Steven Spielberg movies just became dull to me.
I liked Interstellar when I first watched it but it was never at the top of Nolan’s filmography for me.
Having rewatched multiple times over the years though it’s actually become one of my all-time favourite movies, period.
This explains why it feels like Christopher Nolans take on a Spielberg movie. The movie got a lot of hate when it first released from sci-fi nerds being annoyed at the third act power of love trope. Meanwhile I found it to be one of Nolans best movies because it had some heart to it.