Steven Spielberg Worked on ‘Interstellar’ for One Year and Says ‘I Became Fascinated With It’ Before Dropping Out: ‘It Was a Much Better Movie in Nolan’s Hands’

**Spielberg:** > “I was involved with ‘Interstellar’ for a year… and I became fascinated with it. I spent a lot of time at the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena, California, talking to the scientists there and the aerospace engineers.” > “I actually hired Chris Nolan’s brother [Jonathan] to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn’t stick. 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.**”

This dude has his hands on so many scripts. You'd be surprised how many movies he had his name attached to at one point.  Everything from The Truman show, to apparently Interstellar.

Solid journalism Variety: Reviews for “Interstellar” were far more mixed than Nolan’s previous acclaimed efforts like “The Dark Knight” and “Interstellar.”

the true sign of a genius. He is able to see the truth. Thank you Mr. Spielberg.

This is fascinating to me because it ended up basically being Nolan's attempt to make a Spielberg film - only Nolan is so much more clinical and less sentimental than Spielberg, and I think the direction reflects that. I think that makes the film signify differently - as an attempt at connection by someone who usually withholds emotion. Which is to some degree what the movie is literally about.

As much as I love both directors and that movie I find it fascinating I had never heard this before. Funnily enough you can pinpoint what drew both directors to the movie in the first place; Spielberg the strained family dynamics and Nolan the way the movie plays with time, both in the grandest scale possible. I think Nolan absolutely nails Murphy's relationship with Cooper across the timeline and it's the most important one but some of the stuff with Cooper's son, his son and Murphy and Cooper's companions comes off a bit cold and distant. That aspect of the movie I think Spielberg would have really hit out of the park and really cranked up the emotions of the situation. Nolan really shines in the second and third act though with all of the various set pieces in space and as much as Spielberg certainly has an eye for interesting set pieces I don't know if he could land the ship as it were for some of those big moments in the way that Nolan does.

We're living in the better timeline because he dropped it.

But we could have finally seen ET's home world!

I spent a year watching it.

They both blew it by not using the song “39”by queen somewhere in the score! It’s like the song was written for this movie 40 years prior. That’s my main critique otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed the film!

Also apparently James Cameron?

That's nice of him

For the best. Spielberg is much better as a producer than a director. Glad he doesn't let his ego get into the way of good scripts

The last Onion media I loved was [their film review of Interstellar.](https://youtu.be/Q9X_sXWoKJE?si=56bOEALOSTY3FFCa) The gag is that Nolan stole the movie from the film critic and he sells it so well.

Truer words have never been spoken.

I like Interstellar fine but I would have preferred a Spielberg/Williams take.

Would have been a silly looking cgi mess if he had helmed it

Why is ilhan Omar in the thumbnail?

It's good. We'll all be to witness what a huge donkey ass of a movie Disclosure Day is gonna be. Firstly, what the f*** is even that name lol. And then you can imagine the way he would've butchered Interstellar. He might've been a great movie-maker, but he isn't that for quite a while now. The last decade being a proof of that.