When two of the world’s biggest directors are attached to the same project you know its a big deal and that was the case when it was revealed that Spielberg directs Nolan’s Interstellar.
Spielberg directs Nolan’s Interstellar …..
The film was originally intended for Spielberg to direct and had been attached to the project for a year or so and he revealed that, “I spent a lot of time at the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena, California, talking to the scientists there and the aerospace engineers.” and went on to explain that, ‘I actually hired Chris Nolan’s brother [Jonathan] to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn’t stick,” he continued. “Jonah actually said, ‘If there comes a point where you decide not to make this movie, I can tell you who’s gonna grab it. He’s already bugging me about it. And that’s my brother Chris.’ He was absolutely right. The second I decided not to make it, Chris jumped on board, probably the next day. ‘Interstellar’ was a much better movie in Chris Nolan’s hands than it would have been in mine.’
So what happened if Spielberg directs Nolan’s Interstellar project?
That Spielberg directs Nolan’s Interstellar was further expanded on by Christopher Nolan himself at a screening of the film earlier this year with Timothee Chalamet and told him, “Right after we collaborated on ‘Dark Knight,’ my brother got the job and went to work with Steven. I get to call him Steven. He’s Mr. Spielberg to you,” Nolan told Chalamet. “He worked on it for a lot of years. It had incredible ideas and moved through all these different iterations, but until Steven was ready to make it, whatever it is, it never quite got that momentum. Steven went off to do another film, so it became available.”
He continued, “I had a lot of conversations with Jonathan over the years and what he was doing and what his ambition was. I was excited by it. I was incredibly struck by his first act. I had been working on a time travel idea… things looking at time. I had half-baked projects that I hadn’t committed to. When it became available, it was a case of me saying to Jonathan, ‘How would you feel if I took this and tried to combine it with some of my ideas and change a bit with what it was?’ He was fine with it. He could tell the spirit of what I was trying to do was to get to what he was initially excited about it.”
The outcome for each director….
“Interstellar” was a non summer blockbuster for the director and opened in November 2014 grossing $681 million worldwide during its initial run and scored five Oscar nominations winning for Best Visual Effects. Spielberg would go on to direct ‘Bridge of Spies’ that saw Mark Rylance win a Best Actor Oscar
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source: Empire / Variety
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