Steven Spielberg was involved with Interstellar for a year before dropping out. While it has been common knowledge in film circles since 2007 that Spielberg was originally attached to Interstellar, he has never discussed it in this much detail until now. In his latest interview, he spoke about his involvement at length.
Spielberg revealed for the first time that he spent significant time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, working directly with aerospace engineers to map out his vision. He gave a very humble endorsement, stating: "Interstellar was a much better movie in Christopher Nolan's hands than it would have been in mine."
His fans believe his version was superior. "The Spielberg draft ended with the crew at a half-finished orbital station using a physical alien device to complete the gravity solution and transmit it back to Earth in time to save the orbital station. Humanity escapes because of alien intervention and human ingenuity working together. No tesseract. No future humans. No metaphysical father-daughter communication through time. It was a straight sci-fi rescue story with geopolitical stakes and a clear external mystery," wrote Jeremy Conrad, a film commentator.
