{"id":575933,"date":"2026-04-10T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575933\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:05:19","slug":"steven-spielberg-says-interstellar-became-a-better-movie-after-he-dropped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575933\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Says Interstellar Became a Better Movie After He Dropped Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Spielberg grew fascinated with \u201cInterstellar\u201d in the year he was attached to the project before dropping out and Christopher Nolan taking over as director.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with Empire Magazine<\/a>, Spielberg looked back on his brief year working on \u201cInterstellar\u201d with fondness. He remembered his fascination with the topic and being warned by screenwriter Jonathan Nolan that his brother would snap up the project if he dropped out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was involved with \u2018Interstellar\u2019 for a year \u2026 and I became fascinated with it,\u201d Spielberg said. \u201cI spent a lot of time at the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena, California, talking to the scientists there and the aerospace engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI actually hired Chris Nolan\u2019s brother [Jonathan] to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn\u2019t stick. Jonah actually said, \u2018If there comes a point where you decide not to make this movie, I can tell you who\u2019s gonna grab it. He\u2019s already bugging me about it. And that\u2019s my brother Chris.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was absolutely right,\u201d Spielberg admitted. \u201cThe second I decided not to make it, Chris jumped on board, probably the next day. \u2018Interstellar\u2019 was a much better movie in Chris Nolan\u2019s hands than it would have been in mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The director swap on the beloved 2014 sci-fi epic was touched on earlier this year by Nolan himself. In a conversation<\/a> with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet to celebrate the anniversary of the film, Nolan recalled his excitement for what his brother wrote and how he wanted to incorporate some time travel elements he\u2019d been working on when he came aboard.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight after we collaborated on \u2018Dark Knight,\u2019 my brother [Jonathan Nolan] got the job and went to work with Steven [Spielberg]. He worked on it for a lot of years,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cIt 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. I had a lot of conversations with Jonathan over the years and what he was doing and what his ambitions was. I was excited by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI was incredibly struck by his first act. I had been working on a time travel idea \u2026 things looking at time. I had half-baked projects that I hadn\u2019t committed to. When it became available, it was a case of me saying to Jonathan, \u2018How 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?\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInterstellar\u201d landed in theaters back in November 2014. It pulled in $681 million worldwide and netted five Oscar nominations. Although the film was more mixed in reviews than Nolan\u2019s previous Batman trilogy, it has endured the test of time and become one of the most beloved sci-fi epics of the century.<\/p>\n

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