Dave Calhoun of Time Out London also granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that it is "a bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike. He became interested in casting Matthew McConaughey after watching him in an early cut of the 2012 film Mud, [27] which he had seen as a friend of one of its producers, Aaron Ryder. Nolan chose not to provide Zimmer with a script or any plot details, but instead gave him a single page that told the story of a father leaving his child for work.

However, for Interstellar, they created the effects first, allowing digital projectors to display them behind the actors, rather than having the actors perform in front of green screens.

He sought to emulate films like Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) for being family-friendly but also "as edgy and incisive and challenging as anything else on the blockbuster spectrum". While filming a water scene in Iceland, Hathaway almost suffered hypothermia because her dry suit had not been properly secured. The ranger, Endurance, and lander spacecraft were created using miniature effects by Nathan Crowley in collaboration with effects company New Deal Studios, as opposed to using computer-generated imagery, as Nolan felt they offered the best way to give the ships a tangible presence in space. When you boot your computer, there is an initial screen that comes up, in which your folders, documents, and software shortcuts are placed.

The film began development in June 2006, when Spielberg and Paramount Pictures announced plans for a science-fiction film based on an eight-page treatment written by Obst and Thorne.

It has been praised by astronomers for its scientific accuracy and portrayal of theoretical astrophysics. Murph is distraught that her father left her to die, but resolves to finding a solution to Brand's work. Before Interstellar 's public release, Paramount CEO Brad Grey hosted a private screening on October 19, 2014, at an IMAX theater in Lincoln Square, Manhattan. Shooting also took place in Iceland, where Nolan had previously filmed scenes for Batman Begins (2005). To create the visual effects for the wormhole and a rotating, supermassive black hole (possessing an ergosphere, as opposed to a non-rotating black hole), Thorne collaborated with Franklin and a team of 30 people at Double Negative, providing pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the engineers, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena.