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Interstellar is a 2014 American-British epic science fiction film directed and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for mankind.

Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which had its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007. Christopher produced Interstellar with his wife, Emma Thomas, through their production company Syncopy, and with Lynda Obst through Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics Kip Thorne was an executive producer, acted as scientific consultant, and wrote a tie-in book, The Science of Interstellar. Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film. Principal photography began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta (Canada), Iceland and Los Angeles. Interstellar uses extensive practical and miniature effects and the company Double Negative created additional digital effects.

Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. In the United States, it was first released on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film had a worldwide gross of $677 million (and $696 million with subsequent re-releases). Interstellar received positive reviews for its screenplay, direction, themes, visual effects, musical score, emotional depth, acting, and ambition. At the 87th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design.

Storyline[]

Plot[]

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Genres[]

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Sci-Fi

Motion Picture Rating[]

  • 13 (Argentina)
  • M (Australia)
  • 12 (Austria)
  • 10 (Brazil)
  • PG (Canada)
  • TE+7 (Chile)
  • 12 (Colombia)
  • 11 (Denmark)
  • K-12 (Finland)
  • Tous publics (France)
  • 12 (Germany)
  • IIA (Hong Kong)
  • 12 (Hungary)
  • UA (India)
  • 12A (Ireland)
  • T (Italy)
  • G (Japan)
  • N-13 (Lithuania)
  • P13 (Malaysia)
  • B (Mexico)
  • 12 (Netherlands)
  • M (New Zealand)
  • G (Nigeria)
  • 12 (Norway)
  • PG-13 (Philippines)
  • 12 (Poland)
  • M/12 (Portugal)
  • 12+ (Russia) (theatrical rating)
  • 16+ (Russia) (video rating)
  • G (Saudi Arabia)
  • PG13 (Singapore)
  • 10-12 (South Africa)
  • 12 (South Korea)
  • 12 (Spain)
  • 11 (Sweden)
  • 12 (Switzerland)
  • G (Thailand)
  • 13A (Turkey)
  • 12A (UK)
  • PG-13 (USA)
  • 16 (Ukraine)
  • C13 (Vietnam)

Images[]

Cast and Crew[]

Director[]

  • Christopher Nolan

Writing Credits[]

  • Jonathan Nolan (written by) and
  • Christopher Nolan (written by)

Cast[]

  • Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
  • Anne Hathaway - Brand
  • Jessica Chastain - Murph
  • Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Years)
  • Ellen Burstyn - Murph (Older)
  • John Lithgow - Donald
  • Michael Caine - Professor Brand
  • David Gyasi - Romilly
  • Wes Bentley - Doyle
  • Casey Affleck - Tom
  • Timothée Chalamet - Tom (15 Years)
  • Matt Damon - Mann
  • Bill Irwin - TARS (voice)
  • Josh Stewart - CASE (voice)
  • Topher Grace - Getty
  • Leah Cairns - Lois
  • David Oyelowo - School Principal
  • Collette Wolfe - Ms. Hanley
  • William Devane - Williams
  • Elyes Gabel - Administrator

Producers[]

  • Kaari Autry (assistant coordinating producer: Alberta) (as Kaari M. Autry)
  • Jenny Basen (line producer)
  • Jill Christensen (coordinating producer: Alberta)
  • Stacey Douglas (assistant coordinating producer: Alberta)
  • Kim Goddard-Rains (coordinating producer: Alberta)
  • Jordan Goldberg (executive producer)
  • Harrison Goldstein (line producer)
  • Arni Bjorn Helgason (line producer: Iceland)
  • Jake Myers (executive producer)
  • Christopher Nolan (producer)
  • Lynda Obst (producer)
  • Graeme Puttock (line producer)
  • Debbie Schwab (supervising producer: Iceland) (as Deb Schwab)
  • Inga Bjorn Solnes (coordinating producer: Iceland)
  • Emma Thomas (producer)
  • Gudlaug O. Thorisdottir (assistant coordinating producer: Iceland)
  • Kip Thorne (executive producer)
  • Thomas Tull (executive producer)
  • Stephanie Fraser (trainee coordinating producer) (uncredited)
  • Brock Skretting (trainee coordinating producer) (uncredited)

Details[]

Countries[]

  • USA
  • UK
  • Canada

Language[]

  • English

Release Dates[]

  • October 26, 2014 (USA) (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
  • October 29, 2014 (UK) (London) (premiere)
  • October 29, 2014 (Russia) (Moscow) (premiere)
  • October 31, 2014 (France) (Paris) (premiere)
  • November 3, 2014 (USA) (New York City, New York) (premiere)
  • November 4, 2014 (Argentina) (Buenos Aires) (premiere)
  • November 5, 2014 (Belgium)
  • November 5, 2014 (Canada) (limited)
  • November 5, 2014 (Switzerland) (French speaking region)
  • November 5, 2014 (France)
  • November 5, 2014 (Luxembourg)
  • November 5, 2014 (USA) (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
  • November 5, 2014 (USA) (limited)
  • November 6, 2014 (United Arab Emirates)
  • November 6, 2014 (Albania)
  • November 6, 2014 (Armenia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Argentina)
  • November 6, 2014 (Australia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • November 6, 2014 (Bolivia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Brazil)
  • November 6, 2014 (Switzerland) (German speaking region)
  • November 6, 2014 (Chile)
  • November 6, 2014 (Colombia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Czech Republic)
  • November 6, 2014 (Germany)
  • November 6, 2014 (Denmark)
  • November 6, 2014 (Greece)
  • November 6, 2014 (Hong Kong)
  • November 6, 2014 (Croatia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Hungary)
  • November 6, 2014 (Indonesia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Israel)
  • November 6, 2014 (Iraq)
  • November 6, 2014 (Italy)
  • November 6, 2014 (South Korea)
  • November 6, 2014 (Kuwait)
  • November 6, 2014 (Lebanon)
  • November 6, 2014 (Republic of North Macedonia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Mexico)
  • November 6, 2014 (Malaysia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Netherlands)
  • November 6, 2014 (New Zealand)
  • November 6, 2014 (Peru)
  • November 6, 2014 (Philippines)
  • November 6, 2014 (Portugal)
  • November 6, 2014 (Serbia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Russia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Singapore)
  • November 6, 2014 (Slovenia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Slovakia)
  • November 6, 2014 (Thailand)
  • November 6, 2014 (Ukraine)
  • November 6, 2014 (Uruguay)
  • November 7, 2014 (Angola)
  • November 7, 2014 (Austria)
  • November 7, 2014 (Azerbaijan)
  • November 7, 2014 (Bulgaria)
  • November 7, 2014 (Canada)
  • November 7, 2014 (Cyprus)
  • November 7, 2014 (Estonia)
  • November 7, 2014 (Egypt)
  • November 7, 2014 (Spain)
  • November 7, 2014 (Finland)
  • November 7, 2014 (UK)
  • November 7, 2014 (Guatemala)
  • November 7, 2014 (Ireland)
  • November 7, 2014 (India)
  • November 7, 2014 (Iceland)
  • November 7, 2014 (Kenya)
  • November 7, 2014 (Lithuania)
  • November 7, 2014 (Latvia)
  • November 7, 2014 (Norway)
  • November 7, 2014 (Panama)
  • November 7, 2014 (Poland)
  • November 7, 2014 (Paraguay)
  • November 7, 2014 (Romania)
  • November 7, 2014 (Sweden)
  • November 7, 2014 (Turkey)
  • November 7, 2014 (Taiwan)
  • November 7, 2014 (USA)
  • November 7, 2014 (Venezuela)
  • November 7, 2014 (Vietnam)
  • November 7, 2014 (South Africa)
  • November 8, 2014 (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • November 10, 2014 (China) (Shanghai) (premiere)
  • November 12, 2014 (China)
  • November 12, 2014 (Malta)
  • November 13, 2014 (Georgia)
  • November 14, 2014 (Cambodia)
  • November 14, 2014 (Pakistan)
  • November 15, 2014 (Bangladesh) (Dhaka)
  • November 22, 2014 (Japan)
  • November 24, 2015 (Japan) (Takarazuka Film Festival)
  • August 2, 2020 (China) (re-release)

Trailer Release Dates[]

  • Trailer 1 - December 14, 2013
  • Trailer 2 - July 30, 2014
  • Trailer 3 - October 1, 2014

Home Media Release Dates[]

  • March 30, 2015 (UK) (DVD)
  • March 30, 2015 (UK) (Blu-Ray)
  • March 31, 2015 (USA) (DVD)
  • March 31, 2015 (USA) (Blu-Ray)
  • October 13, 2015 (USA) (DVD re-release)
  • October 13, 2015 (USA) (Blu-Ray re-release)
  • January 24, 2017 (USA) (DVD re-release)
  • April 4, 2017 (USA) (Blu-Ray re-release)
  • December 18, 2017 (UK) (4K UHD Blu-Ray)
  • December 19, 2017 (USA) (4K UHD Blu-Ray)
  • August 27, 2018 (UK) (DVD re-release)
  • August 27, 2018 (UK) (Blu-Ray re-release)
  • December 7, 2020 (UK) (Blu-Ray re-release)

Release[]

Before Interstellar's public release, Paramount CEO Brad Grey hosted a private screening on October 19, 2014, at an IMAX theater in Lincoln Square, Manhattan. Paramount then showed Interstellar to some of the industry's filmmakers and actors in a first-look screening at the California Science Center on October 22. On the following day, the film was screened at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California for over 900 members of the Screen Actors Guild. The film premiered on October 26 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and in Europe on October 29 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. The film premiered on November 7 in Canada.

Interstellar was released early on November 4 in various 70 mm IMAX film, 70 mm film and 35 mm film theaters, and had a limited release in North America (United States and Canada) on November 5, with a wide release on November 7. The film was released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland on November 5, the United Kingdom on November 7 and in additional territories in the following days. For the limited North American release, Interstellar was projected from 70 mm and 35 mm in 249 theaters that still supported those formats, including at least forty-one 70 mm IMAX theaters. A 70 mm IMAX projector was installed at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles to display the format. The film's wide release expanded to theaters that showed it digitally. Paramount Pictures distributed the film in North America, and Warner Bros. distributed it in the remaining territories. The film was released in over 770 IMAX screens worldwide, which was the largest global release in IMAX cinemas, until surpassed by Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious 7 (2015) with 810 IMAX theaters.

Interstellar was an exception to Paramount Pictures' goal to stop releasing films on film stock and to distribute them only in digital format. According to Pamela McClintock of The Hollywood Reporter, the initiative to project Interstellar on film stock would help preserve an endangered format, which was supported by Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and other filmmakers. McClintock reported that theatre owners saw this as "backward", as nearly all theatres in the US had been converted to digital projection.

Reception[]

Box office[]

Interstellar grossed $696,264,079 worldwide on a $165 million budget.

Critical response[]

The film has an 8.6 rating on IMDb and a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Company Credits[]

Production Companies[]

Distributors[]

Special Effects[]

  • Double Negative (visual effects)
  • New Deal Studios (visual effects)
  • Custom Film Effects (opticals)
  • Motion Picture Imaging (opticals)

Technical Specs[]

Runtime[]

  • 169 mins

Color[]

  • Color

Aspect Ratio[]

  • 2.35:1

Trivia[]

  • Steven Spielberg, who was attached to direct this movie in 2006, and hired Jonathan Nolan to write the screenplay, chose other projects instead. In 2012, after Spielberg's departure, Jonathan Nolan suggested the screenplay to his brother Christopher Nolan.
  • The method of space travel in this movie was based on physicist Dr. Kip Thorne's works, which were also the basis for the method of space travel in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact", and the resulting movie adaptation, Contact (1997). Matthew McConaughey starred in both movies.
  • Like Inception (2010) and the last two Dark Knight movies, Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan has focused on as many real environments as possible. "We have spatial interiors. We built closed sets and shot it like a documentary, like the actors were really there", he said. Nolan had the visual effects created in advance, and projected onto screens placed outside the spacecraft set, so when the actors and actresses looked out of the windows of their vessel they would be see and react to a real environment, and not a greenscreen. Technically, Nolan said he shot with an IMAX camera on this movie more than on any of his previous movies. He also wanted to give greater enhancement to the audio experience this time around. He stated that he has "very ambitious sound mix plans. I want to give audiences an incredible immersive experience. The technical aspects are going to be more important than any film I've made before."
  • Anne Hathaway suffered from hypothermia while filming in Iceland, due to the fact that her astronaut suit was open while filming scenes in the icy water.
  • Dr. Kip Thorne won a scientific bet against Stephen Hawking upon the astrophysics theory that underlies this movie. As a consequence, Hawking had to subscribe to Penthouse Magazine for a year. The famous bet was depicted in The Theory of Everything (2014).
  • The Wormhole was placed near Saturn as a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), because Stanley Kubrick originally planned for part of that movie to take place at Saturn. Unfortunately, as visual effects technology wasn't able to make Saturn's rings at that time, he changed it to Jupiter.
  • Christopher Nolan was initially concerned that a scientifically accurate depiction of a black hole would not be easily depicted for the common audience. However, he found the finished effect to be explainable provided that he maintained consistent camera perspectives, "As long as we didn't change the point of view or the camera position too much, we could get something very understandable."
  • The wormhole explanation using paper and pen is exactly the same as it appears in Event Horizon (1997).
  • The screenplay is based on the works of theoretical physicist Dr. Kip Thorne. He described the story as "based on warped space-time, the most exotic events in the universe suddenly being accessible to humans."
  • Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan cast Matthew McConaughey after seeing his performance in Mud (2012). It was an "ideal moment" for Nolan when they landed Texas native McConaughey for the lead role, "I'm thrilled for him right now. I didn't know how much potential he had until I saw 'Mud', not just as a leading man, but in sheer acting talent." He remarked that in McConaughey he "needed an everyday man who can experience these extraordinary events."
  • The Ranger, Endurance, and Lander spacecrafts were created using miniature effects and full-sized models, by effects company New Deal Studios, as Christopher Nolan felt they were better than computer-generated effects, to give the ships a tangible presence in space.
  • The wormhole shown in this movie near Saturn is exactly the same place shown in Man of Steel (2013), produced by Christopher Nolan. In Man of Steel (2013), Superman as a child arrives into our solar system in a spaceship when it drops out of warp.
  • This movie began as a Paramount Pictures production. When Christopher Nolan took the director's chair, Warner Bros Pictures, which had released Nolan's recent productions, sought a stake in the project. In exchange for international distribution rights, Warner Bros. gave Paramount Pictures the rights to co-finance future sequels of Friday the 13th (2009) and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999).
  • This was the first movie directed by Christopher Nolan since The Prestige (2006) to feature an opening title card.
  • The spacecraft is not launched until forty-three minutes into the movie.
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