Overview
- Spielberg, who spoke to Empire on Thursday, said he developed Interstellar for about a year before dropping out and that Christopher Nolan picked it up almost immediately.
- He said producer Lynda Obst and physicist Kip Thorne brought him the project and that he researched at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, meeting scientists and aerospace engineers.
- Spielberg hired Jonathan Nolan to write the first two drafts and recalled Jonathan warning that his brother would seize the project if he walked away, which he later praised as the better outcome.
- Christopher Nolan has said he combined Jonathan’s script with ideas he was exploring about time after the project became available when Spielberg moved on to another film.
- Released in November 2014, Interstellar earned $681 million worldwide and five Oscar nominations, including a win for visual effects.