Interstellar - Part 3

[Solidus]

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.

I think it was more interesting to kinda show more of the tease of man going to the next step. From the Mercury to Apollo and beyond. It's suppose to be vague it's a trailer for a movie a year away. I can see how some may want to see space stuff right away, but to me the tease is about showing everything up to it and just showing the launch. The beginning of the journey. The next step in man's journey as well. That and the name itself gives enough self-evidence that it is a journey outside of our solar system.

The premise is clear, it's a movie about going on a journey into interstellar space. But going any further I think could have been too much for now. And as you said in your first post, they will not even have any shots ready that would be non-spoiler...though most the stuff that happens in space is quite spoiler"ish".

But I'm off to bed, these late showings wear me out more than they used to.

 

[Persona]

people perked up at the name Christopher Nolan and then sank back down as the teaser showed them next to nothing. which is fine, and Nolan will win them all back with the first real trailer, but unfortunately this teaser didn't seem to intrigue the audience i was with.

 

[Persona]

and Inception's teaser is one of the best ever teasers. i mean, that thing was Intriguing with a capital I. if this teaser didn't have Nolan's name on it people would just think, "well, that was sorta cryptic" and then quickly forget about it after watching the Godzilla trailer. i say this as a big Nolan fan, mind you. and i have no problem with the teaser showing very little...but it just doesn't do much. whereas Inception's teaser had brief, tantalizing images unlike anything you'd seen and with the sound design gave you a very strong sense of mood and mystery.

 

[craigdbfan]

I seriously can't wait to see this (the teaser on the big screen).

 

[StarLord]

My Cocaine Penis!

I believe he refers to it as his ''banana and tangerines''...

 

[Tequilla]

You know what surprised me from the teaser ? Just "From Christopher Nolan". No TDK trilogy nor Inception mentions.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I didn't freaking get it in my showing. Looks like I ain't missing much though.

 

[Deserana]

Yeah the universal response to this teaser seems to be "blehhhh". No one has kicked up a fuss about it at all.

 

[Anita18]

I agree this teaser is not as intriguing as Inception's - it's more hopeful than anything else, and it's obvious they're going to be building up to something fairly slowly.

Having read the script, I think it's a good encapsulation of what the movie is about, at its core, and not just the space thing.

 

[Octoberist]

The interesting thing about the film and if it sticks to the orginal script in design, is that's its a lot more sci-fi and fantasical then what the teaser is willing to show us.

 

[kvz5]

Just watched it. The description with that leaked clip a few days ago was pretty accurate.

Matthew's voice over
Corn fields/crops footage
"From Christopher Nolan"
Space Expedition news clips
Clip of books at the bookshelf
Clip of Matt driving away from his kids crying
Clip of his kids holding hands while watching the rocket launch
Spinning WordArt-ish "Interstellar"
Black with white stars
"One year from now"

 

[Anita18]

The interesting thing about the film and if it sticks to the orginal script in design, is that's its a lot more sci-fi and fantasical then what the teaser is willing to show us.

Absolutely. They might be holding back, akin to Inception's emotional angle. That they're doing it with visuals is unusual, but such is Nolan's clout.

 

[Liam_H]

If this teaser doesn't catch on with GA then that's fine when it has year to go.

 

[Gee]

Just watched it. The description with that leaked clip a few days ago was pretty accurate.

Matthew's voice over
Corn fields/crops footage
"From Christopher Nolan"
Space Expedition news clips
Clip of books at the bookshelf
Clip of Matt driving away from his kids crying
Clip of his kids holding hands while watching the rocket launch
Spinning WordArt-ish "Interstellar"
Black with white stars
"One year from now"

Just watched it also. Wow... DAT Zimmer score!

 

[redfirebird2008]

Absolutely. They might be holding back, akin to Inception's emotional angle. That they're doing it with visuals is unusual, but such is Nolan's clout.

Yep, Nolan has gained even more power in Hollywood than he had leading up to Inception. Does anyone think he really wanted to give away the city folding on itself or JGL's anti-gravity theatrics?

 

[Gee]

Yep, Nolan has gained even more power in Hollywood than he had leading up to Inception. Does anyone think he really wanted to give away the city folding on itself or JGL's anti-gravity theatrics?

The teaser did show some of the hotel hallway fight.

 

[redfirebird2008]

The teaser did show some of the hotel hallway fight.

That is my point. Do you think he wanted to show that? WB gave him complete control over the production but not as much control over the marketing as he would prefer. That's the tradeoff when your financiers are forking over $160m just to make the movie.

 

[Tequilla]

I didn't freaking get it in my showing. Looks like I ain't missing much though.

It's floating on the internet . To see this in a theater i'll have to wait like 3 months t:

I actually think outside of Begins , its the best Nolan film teaser. Simple and to the point. And it resonates immensely with my fascination with space exploration vs humanity.

 

[jacobed]

Wb will do whatever Nolan tells them to do

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Saw the trailer at TDOS and it was great! Zimmer's score was absolutely beautiful and the imagery was great. Besides the Godzilla trailer which got a extremely positive reaction from the crowd, Interstellar's teaser generated a lot of intrigue mostly because it's a Nolan film. The two trailers that really generated any real buzz at my showing at least.

 

[Anita18]

That is my point. Do you think he wanted to show that? WB gave him complete control over the production but not as much control over the marketing as he would prefer. That's the tradeoff when your financiers are forking over $160m just to make the movie.

Who knows. He could have just not given them that footage. Marketing can only work with what the director gives them.

Man, I can't believe they had that shot already, considering what went into making that set.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

This is distributed domestically by Paramount, not WB. So expect to see some great marketing.

 

[Yurka]

Production wrapped yesterday so hopefully the marketing train gets started shortly.

 

[Van Petrol]

^ Did you work on it as part of the crew this time around, Yurka?

 

[Visiting Arkham]

Inception was a pretty massive risk at the time. The Dark Knight was huge, certainly, but an original sci-fi film that costs hundreds of millions, with a plot involved several layers of dreams? There's no question Warner Brothers feared it would be completely inaccessible, which is probably why the teaser was much beefier than Interstellar. They needed to seed the idea of dreamscapes, wonky physics, "Your mind is the scene of the crime."

Nolan is one of (if not the) biggest commercial director working right now, whose original sci-fi movie made about a billion dollars. They didn't need to prove anything with this teaser, and personally, I thought it was beautifully done.