Christopher Nolan's ambitious sci-fi epic follows a team of astronauts through a wormhole to find humanity a new home. Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 35mm anamorphic and IMAX 70mm, retooling an IMAX camera to be handheld for interior spacecraft scenes. Nolan planted 500 acres of real corn in Alberta for the farm sequences, built physically constructed sets for the tesseract and spacecraft interiors, and partnered with theoretical physicist Kip Thorne to create scientifically accurate visualizations of black holes rendered by DNEG.
Interstellar
Production Details
Christopher Nolan
Hoyte van Hoytema
Nathan Crowley
Hans Zimmer
169 minutes
Sci-Fi Adventure Drama
Longview, Alberta, Canada, Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, Svinafellsjokull Glacier, Iceland, Orrustuholl, Iceland, Los Angeles, California
$165 million
$701 million
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Interview: Interstellar Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema
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