JAKARTA - Not many people know, Interstellar was almost made without Christopher Nolan as the director. The Independent, quoted Friday, April 10, reported that Steven Spielberg was fully involved in the project. He even recruited Jonathan Nolan to write the script first.
Spielberg's confession was made in an interview with Empire, quoted by Total Film. He admitted that, in the end, Interstellar was actually better worked on by Christopher Nolan. "Interstellar became a much better film in Chris Nolan's hands than if it had been made by me," said Spielberg.
The director of Minority Report said he worked on the project for about a year. During that time, he went back and forth to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to discuss with aerospace scientists and engineers. Spielberg also asked Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's brother, to write the first and second drafts. However, the project eventually did not continue in his hands.
Spielberg also told the story, Jonathan Nolan had told who would most likely take over the project if he stepped down. The person, said Jonathan, was his own brother, Chris Nolan. And that's what happened. As soon as Spielberg decided not to continue, Nolan immediately entered.
In Nolan's hands, Interstellar then became a film that was not only commercially successful, but also long-lived on the IMAX screen. The film starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway continues to be re-released and still has an audience. The Independent noted, Nolan admitted that Interstellar is still the film that people talk about the most when they meet him.
Nolan said he was drawn to his brother's early script because the core of the story was not only about science, but also about family and humanity. From there the emotions of the film were built. He then combined the script with other ideas he had long thought about, including time.
As a result, Interstellar turned into a science fiction film that not only talks about space, but also about loss, hope, and father-child relationships. Perhaps that's what makes this film not quickly run out of talk after its run.
When the 10th anniversary of Interstellar was celebrated through a re-release in 2026, Nolan also explained why the film continued to be strong in IMAX. When many studios began to focus on the digital format, Paramount instead gave Nolan the space to record and release the film in IMAX format. The results are clear. To date, Interstellar is the ninth largest IMAX release of all time.
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