1 HR7 YRS1 HR BELOW = 7 YRS ABOVE
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DOSSIER // 2014SIG: INTERSTELLAR

INTERSTELLAR

Era
HIGH-CONCEPT
Genres
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Released
2014-11-07
Runtime
2h 49m

SIGNAL SUMMARY

Released
2014-11-07
Runtime
2h 49m
Budget
$165M
Worldwide gross
$775M
IMDb
8.7 (2.6M votes)
RT critics
73%
Metacritic
74
Oscars
1 wins / 5 noms

TIME IS CURRENCY

The structure: Time dilation makes simultaneity itself the plot — one hour below costs seven years above.

Interstellar turns relativity into drama: every hour the crew spends down the gravity well costs the people left behind seven years. The casting makes the toll visible — the same character appears three times, played by different actors across the decades the crew skipped.

Murph
Jessica Chastain
Murph (10 Yrs.)
Mackenzie Foy
Murph (older)
Ellen Burstyn
CLOCK BELOW — DOWN THE GRAVITY WELL1 HOURCLOCK ABOVE — EARTH7 YEARSEXCHANGE RATE ×61,362hours above per hour below — arithmetic on the 1 hr : 7 yr note in the record

LOVE, GRAVITY, BOX OFFICE

Budget
$165M
Worldwide gross
$774.7M
Return
×4.7
Format
IMAX 70MM

Interstellar had no cape and no franchise — an original film about dust, wheat, and a bookshelf — yet it pulled $774.7M worldwide on a $165M spend, holding its own against the Batman-scale hits charted around it. On the format: IMAX 70mm sequences; Kip Thorne-consulted black-hole rendering.

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THE ORGAN PIPES

Composer
Hans Zimmer
Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema
Editor
Lee Smith

For the score, Hans Zimmer traded the brass of his Batman years for a cathedral organ — sustained pipes standing in for rocket thrust and held breath. It was the fifth of 6 Zimmer collaborations with Nolan, and the loudest quiet one.

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