Where to watch Interstellar (2014)

Trivia & production notes

• Producer Lynda Obst and physicist Kip Thorne conceived Interstellar's premise after being set up on a blind date by Carl Sagan, who had collaborated with them on Contact.
• Steven Spielberg initially directed the project before Christopher Nolan took over in 2012, with Jonathan Nolan persuading his brother to step in by suggesting he would probably direct it if Spielberg left.
• Christopher Nolan earned a $20 million salary plus 20% of the film's total gross as director.
• Jonathan Nolan spent four years working on the screenplay and studied relativity at the California Institute of Technology to understand the scientific concepts.
• Christopher Nolan removed gravitational waves as a plot device for detecting the wormhole from Jonathan's script, then regretted the decision after LIGO detected gravitational waves just over a year later.
• Ken Burns granted Christopher Nolan permission to use featured interviews from his 2012 documentary The Dust Bowl in Interstellar after Nolan contacted him for inspiration.
• Matthew McConaughey was cast after Christopher Nolan saw an early cut of Mud and later visited him on the set of True Detective.
• The Endurance spacecraft was designed as a circular structure of 12 capsules laid flat to mimic a clock face, inspired by the International Space Station's modular design.
• The spacecraft miniatures, nicknamed maxatures by the crew for their massive size, included a 1/15th-scale Endurance spanning over 7.6 meters and hand-sculpted Ranger and Lander models over 14 and 15 meters respectively.
• Visual effects company DNEG created 850 effects shots at 5600 × 4000 resolution, with 150 created in-camera using digital projectors instead of relying on green screen compositing.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Interstellar (film), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rewritten for StreamShack; errors are ours — tell us about them.