Interstellar - Part 3

[redfirebird2008]

Dang, this thread got dangerous in a hurry. Landmines of spoilers all over the place.

 

[Anita18]

Dang, this thread got dangerous in a hurry. Landmines of spoilers all over the place.

Well, have you read the script, sir?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

People keep on talking about a script I have never seen... but would love to.

 

[kvz5]

It was the only thing I didn't like in the script. [BLACKOUT]It was just ridiculously forced and there was clearly no connection between the two. I felt that the only thing that connected them was that they thought they were the only humans alive at that point so Brand was like "Hey whatever, I think you're cuter than Doyle so lets do it. Woot" Basically [/BLACKOUT]

That's how I felt too. I cringed at that part. But hey, Nolan might've scrap it for all we know.

 

[DA_Champion]

I wonder if this will be the best movie of 2014.

 

[James.B]

Jonah talks about the screenplay in this article (Back when Spielberg was going to direct).
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/28/entertainment/et-scriptland28

"I have a better understanding of what those NASA astronauts feel like as they're about to get blasted off into outer space [when I was] waiting to go pitch ideas to Lynda Obst and Steven Spielberg," Nolan says of his meeting in January. "I'm not even sure if I remember what I told them, but they must have liked something. It was a pretty intense experience."

Indeed they did. Now, as soon as the Oscar-nominated screenwriter helps director-brother Chris finalize prep for the "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight," for which Nolan penned the screenplay, his next job will entail adapting the mind-bending treatment written by Obst and physicist Dr. Kip S. Thorne into a narrative screenplay for the potential Paramount Pictures tent pole.

It's a project that has its genesis in the two-decades-long friendship between Obst, an astronomy enthusiast who produced "The Siege" and "The Fisher King," and Thorne, the Feynman professor of theoretical physics at Caltech. (When Obst was producing "Contact," adapted by screenwriters James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg from Carl Sagan's novel, Thorne conceptualized a wormhole sequence for the film that also advanced the field of theoretical physics.)

At one point Obst and Thorne were brainstorming about, as Obst puts it, "the most exotic events in the universe suddenly becoming accessible to humans," and crafted a potential cinematic scenario that hooked Spielberg enough to consider directing.

According to Obst, Nolan took the "Interstellar" treatment's "basic idea" and "added a time element that none of us had thought of." (Obst and Thorne may retain story credit on "Interstellar.")

"It really is true that truth is stranger than fiction, and we want to explore some of that," says Nolan, who as a young boy loved to watch old 8-millimeter NASA film strips of Saturn V launches with older brother Chris. "A lot of the narrative will be suggested by some of these amazing ideas that Dr. Thorne has been working on -- his accumulated knowledge of the wonders of the universe. I'm going to immerse myself as much as my feeble little mind can wrap itself around some of these concepts and the narrative will emerge."

"The truth is, since I watched 'Close Encounters' when I was probably 7 or 8, I've been waiting for Mr. Spielberg to make this movie," says Nolan, now 30. "That I have anything to do with it is mind-blowing."

 

[redfirebird2008]

Well, have you read the script, sir?

Absolutely not and I don't want to.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

To be honest, primal, instinctive quickies isn't without precedent in Nolan movies. Don't forget Talia and Wayne!

 

[Anita18]

Absolutely not and I don't want to.

Fair enough, which means the spoiler tags are warranted then.

 

[Sentinel X]

That's how I felt too. I cringed at that part. But hey, Nolan might've scrap it for all we know.

lol, I almost feel like he did it because [BLACKOUT]he reallly wanted to put a zero-G sex scene in there[/BLACKOUT] but it comes across as awkward to me

 

[Black Narcissus]

That's how I felt too. I cringed at that part. But hey, Nolan might've scrap it for all we know.

I'm not complaining.

Spoiler

We get a naked Hathaway floating around in space!

 

[AnneFan]

It's okay. That leads to him bonking Anne Hathaway no?

He hits her over the head?

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I'm not complaining.

Spoiler

We get a naked Hathaway floating around in space!

 

[kvz5]

I'm not complaining.

Spoiler

We get a naked Hathaway floating around in space!

Puhleeze. Only males show skin in Nolan movies. You'd see a bare shoulder at best.

 

[antsman41]

My Cocaine Penis!

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Puhleeze. Only males show skin in Nolan movies. You'd see a bare shoulder at best.

Not good enough.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Puhleeze. Only males show skin in Nolan movies. You'd see a bare shoulder at best.

And people now you know why matthew was cast. Shirtless scenes in space allt the way

 

[Anita18]

And people now you know why matthew was cast. Shirtless scenes in space allt the way

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I can't wait to see Topher shirtless.

 

[superherofan777]

I`m so ready for this teaser its hard the breathe LOL.

 

[mclay18]

Saw the teaser twice. Very disappointed.

I can understand the lack of footage (Nolan's secrecy and no finished effects work), but the concept could be better teased at. Interstellar right now looks like a Ron Howard film, circa 1990s. I'm serious, it feels like a follow-up to Apollo 13 than a high-concept film about wormholes.

 

[Solidus]

People just want too much anymore out of anything.

 

[mclay18]

You pretty much haven't seen the teaser, so... feel free to say whenever you do. But that's the impression I got.

I'm more than willing to give Nolan the benefit of the doubt once more footage is made available... but as a teaser it's very underwhelming. Teasers for his previous movies were much better in comparison.

 

[Solidus]

You pretty much haven't seen the teaser, so... feel free to say whenever you do. But that's the impression I got.

I'm more than willing to give Nolan the benefit of the doubt once more footage is made available... but as a teaser it's very underwhelming. Teasers for his previous movies were much better in comparison.

You do know The Hobbit now is out and a lot of us have seen it as well. Yes it shows very little footage, and not the footage you wanted. But I think it gets the point across of a massive teaser for a film that is still a year away. I think the clips at the beginning gave it a very clear message. And saving the good stuff for later.

But you can call it what you want. This teaser was way better then TDKR's, and I'd say on par or maybe better then Inceptions first teaser.

 

[mclay18]

You do know The Hobbit now is out and a lot of us have seen it as well. Yes it shows very little footage, and not the footage you wanted. But I think it gets the point across of a massive teaser for a film that is still a year away.

It's all about context.

For me, I expected a more space-themed approach. Using the footage of the spacewalk and such is great... but it's vague. Incorporating stock footage of starfields and nebulas with it, plus the actual film footage, would've been preferable. It wouldn't spoil any story details or key scenes, but made the premise clearer.