Interstellar - Part 4

[redfirebird2008]

Not really. Nolan was an executive producer on Transcendence which basically means nothing other than "Oh, look's interesting. Let's talk about it over lunch. And yeah, you can put my name in the trailer to get a few butts in the seats."

Hell, they didn't even put his name in the marketing.

 

[Warhammer]

I bet Nolan was like "Hell naw. Take my name off of that s***."

 

[Hunter Rider]

Guys, not everyone has seen TASM2 so please keep discussion of it out of a thread that has zero to do with that film please.

 

[BatLobster]

Idk, I think Nolan's heart was totally in TDKR and he wanted to make it as fresh as possible for himself while solidifying the prior two movies into a larger body of work, which is an extremely tricky task to pull off given the scope and differences between the first two movies. As he said, you spend two years of your life on a movie of that size, so he sees it as a necessity to get to a place where he feels too excited by the script to NOT to make the movie. I could see him being a bit exhausted by the end of it all and certainly ready to move on, but definitely not disinterested. Then again, I love the film and ironically I always say that I feel it's got more pure "heart" than his previous films.

That said, I'm sure moving onto Interstellar and taking the first step into the next phase of his career has been creatively liberating for him. Can't wait to see Godzilla in IMAX, both for the movie and the trailer. No idea what to expect with this trailer and loving that.

 

[James.B]

‘Interstellar’ trailer premieres at D.C.’s Air & Space Museum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/05/05/insterstellar-trailer-premieres-at-d-c-s-air-space-museum/

The school kids and tourists who settled in to watch “Hubble 3D” at the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Museum were treated to a dash of unexpected Hollywood ballyhoo Monday morning when the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi adventure “Interstellar” made its world premiere at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater.
After a brief announcement, the trailer unspooled to show Matthew McConaughey driving his truck through corn fields while a lush orchestral score swelled in the background. Later, the fields had caught fire, an ominous dust cloud could be seen looming over a baseball game, and McConaughey (playing a character named Cooper) was reassuring his daughter that he loved her — right before being shot into space in order to save the world.
The plot of “Interstellar,” written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan from a treatment by theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, has been kept largely under wraps, although the word “wormhole” has been mentioned in early reports, suggesting that the McConaissance is now on the verge of breaking the time-space continuum. As the trailer’s tag line puts it, “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
Nolan, the director of “Inception” and “The Dark Knight” trilogy, has famously stayed loyal to large-format film stock during cinema’s digital revolution. He photographed “Interstellar” on 70 mm and IMAX film; the director’s commitment to film, along with the movie’s space-travel theme, made it a natural fit with the museum –- one of the only theaters in the region that shows IMAX movies on film, rather than digitally. The Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater will be the only theater showing the trailer until it appears with “Godzilla” when it opens in other theaters throughout the country next week. The “Interstellar” trailer will play before all of the museum’s IMAX offerings.
Air & Space Museum theaters director Zarth Bertsch said that the trailer’s exclusive run will continue at least until “Godzilla’s” May 16 opening date, and perhaps longer if it doesn’t interfere with the theater’s regular programming. (There’s even a chance that “Interstellar” will play there during its theatrical run.) “The extra two minutes have made our turnaround time between shows pretty tight,” he said. “But we’d like to play it indefinitely if we can.”

 

[redfirebird2008]

DC people are lucky.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

That's a very cool line right there.

 

[redfirebird2008]

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

That's a very cool line right there.

Dat Nolan pretentiousness. Some people hate it, but I love it. t:

 

[dark_b]

was this script written by Jonah for Spielberg?

or was the script written for Chris Nolan by Jonah and then Jonah went to Spielberg because Chris had other plans?

 

[redfirebird2008]

was this script written by Jonah for Spielberg?

or was the script written for Chris Nolan by Jonah and then Jonah went to Spielberg because Chris had other plans?

Written for Spielberg.

 

[kvz5]

Even if we didn't know that it was written for Spielberg, I think a lot would guess that it was because the script is "very Spielberg" if that makes sense.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Hasn't Nolan added an original idea of his own into the script?

 

[kvz5]

I remember reading somewhere that he did.

Based on that trailer description, it also looks like one of the speculations about the change he made to a character was correct.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Hasn't Nolan added an original idea of his own into the script?

Yep, mixed his own idea with his brother's previous work. I haven't read the old script but I bet the folks who have read it are curious to see what Nolan himself has added.

 

[dark_b]

Written for Spielberg.

this is good. i like Nolan movies .but this looks like it was a new challenge for him.

 

[Rocketman]

I read Jonah's 2008 script. And Chris has largely kept it as is, but has added a time travel element to the end that will make people poop themselves.

 

[dark_b]

spoile spoiler. you spoiled the movie by writting that there is time travel in the third act.the movie is destroyed.

joking.

 

[Travesty]

Yes, poop!

A very grounded, deep and methodical poop...with subtext!

 

[redfirebird2008]

I read Jonah's 2008 script. And Chris has largely kept it as is, but has added a time travel element to the end that will make people poop themselves.

How do you know that?

 

[HighFivingMF]

Hasn't Nolan added an original idea of his own into the script?

Yep. Topher Grace wears fuzzy gloves.

 

[Rocketman]

Yes, poop!

A very grounded, deep and methodical poop...with subtext!

You better believe it, baby.

 

[Travesty]

 

[Rocketman]

You rock!

 

[titansupes]

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

That's a very cool line right there.

I'm 'squeeing' over here.

 

[AnneFan]

Cool line. Humanity has gazed at the heavens, and now it will reach for them. It's time to go...insterstellar.