Interstellar

Bobbi Isabella

Interstellar: The Story Widowed former NASA pilot Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) travels in space to discover a solution for the ongoing famine, world disasters, and drought occurring on Earth.

The Making of the Interstellar Story

Idea conceived by Lynda Obst and Kip Thorne, who is a theoretical physicist.

Thorne’s Work

Based on Thorne’s Work, the duo created the concept of “the most exotic events in the universe suddenly becoming accessible to humans.”

Christopher Nolan and Interstellar -Nolan’s idea was to encourage the goal of human spaceflight within the film. -Nolan’s initial intention was to write a screenplay that would merge with his brother’s screenplay (Jonathan Nolan) -To research the film, Nolan visited NASA as well as the private space program SpaceX

Production Design -Production Designer: Nathan Crowley-Features three spacecraft:The Ranger, The Endurance, and The Lander.-The Endurance was based off of the International Space Station-The two robots featured in the film, CASE and TARS, were controlled by Bill Irwin, who was also the voice of both.

Filming Interstellar -Nolan filmed with anamorphic 35mm and IMAX film.-Cinematographer Hoyt van Hoytema was hired for Interstellar (Nolan’s usual choice for cinematographer, Wally Pfister, was busy working on his directorial debut, Transcendence)

Visual Effects-The visual effects company that was involved with Interstellar was Double Negative.-Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Franklin -The effects were created first so the digital projectors could be used to display the effects behind the actors, rather than using green screens.

Composer- Hans Zimmer -Zimmer, previously scoring Nolan’s Batman trilogy, teamed up with Nolan once again for Interstellar.

-Instead of giving Zimmer a script to start from, Nolan gave him one page of text about the film to reference.

-Zimmer conducted 45 scoring sessions for this film. (three times more than Inception)

Music

Interstellar’s InfluencesDirector Nolan said that the main influences of this film were notable key Science Fiction films such as Metropolis(1927) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Works Cited ● Interstellar IMDBhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/● Interstellar: Official Movie Website http://www.interstellar-movie.com/● Movie Review/Analysishttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/love-physics● Interstellar Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29