Director Christopher Nolan‘s Oscar-winning, brilliant sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar — which debuted on Digital-HD this week, and hits Blu-ray and DVD March 31 — has been the subject of much discussion about its scientific accuracy, particularly regarding black holes and wormholes. That discussion took center stage this week at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, for an event entitled “The Science of Interstellar” and featuring conversations with the film’s screenwriter Jonathan Nolan (brother of the film’s director Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay) and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne who also served as producer on the film, as well as one of the original authors of the treatment setting forth the concept for the film.
The Nolans worked closely with Thorne throughout the film’s creation to constantly test scientific ideas in the story, to keep things as accurate as possible, and to find out just how far they could push the envelope with their ideas without bringing the whole scientific foundation of the film crumbling down. I sat down on-camera with Jonathan Nolan and Kip Thorne to speak with them about their work on the film, and later they gave a detailed presentation about the science of the movie, during which I asked about the time-disrupting nature of a wormhole existing within the event horizon of a black hole (which relates to the bizarre theoretical possibility of travel backward in time). The full video of my one-on-one interview with Nolan and Thorne is below, and I’ll add the video of the full panel discussion and Q&A session when it’s available soon.
For a hard sci-fi movie dealing with vast complex theories about gravity, space-time, and actual interstellar travel, the film connected with audiences to the tune of $672 million in worldwide box office. Since Christopher Nolan became a blockbuster director in 2005 by taking over the Batman franchise, five of his last six films have taken more than $150 million on the domestic home entertainment market alone (usually taking similar numbers abroad). So as one of the top ten grossing film of 2014, Interstellar should easily top the $100 million mark for domestic DVD/Blu-ray/Digital-HD sales, and match that figure or exceed it on the international home market.
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2015/03/20/talking-interstellar-with-jonathan-nolan-and-kip-thorne/
