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weird trailer for this at the hobbit premiere...i was more intrigued by the amazing spiderman 2 trailer and i probably won't even see that

The trailer was as it was described, a montage with that driving scene at the end.

I thought the montage was revealing of couple of things though:

The first clip they showed people burning crops, this makes me think that they are taking the "blight" route for the natural disaster.

MM's monologue sounds like humanity has lost hope and curiosity.

So it seems that the underlying setting is the same as the script.

Good to hear, hunter2012.

According to Dark Horizons, the trailer actually WILL be online tomorrow morning (Saturday). Though, that's literally the only official-ish report I've read, so it's not guaranteed. Can't wait to finally see this thing for myself...

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/30090/-interstellar-trailer-online-saturday?

Found a bootleg...

http://www.mediafire.com/watch/ggmdab6c09c2md2/IMG_3473.MOV

... and damn it, that was absolutely perfect. As a huge space nerd, the stock footage / voice-over delivers in all the right ways, while only hinting at the adventure to come.

I completely understand how dumb of a movie it is, but I love Armageddon irrationally. And for whatever reason, based on this footage, and based on what we know of the story, this almost feels like Christopher Nolan doing his version of Armageddon. Obviously, a much more elegant, powerful, and poignant take on roughly the same kind of story, but with a similar visual flair. That sun-kissed Americana vibe blended with the hero/NASA stuff that Bay (actually) did so well. Only this is Nolan's take, and it's set in the future. Which has me excited beyond all rational thought. That, and it technically comes out the night of by birthday.

As far as movie hype goes, for me, it doesn't get any bigger/better than this.


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Who doesn't Armageddon? If you don't enjoy that movie, you're simply not American.

Armageddon is one of those movies that if I see it is on TV I will watch it. Truly a great movie.

I still love Armageddon.

Excellently written monologue

Looks like I was wrong initially. Have never seen an official, big-name trailer release on Saturday morning, but I guess it makes sense. Nolan gets at two-night trailer debut in theaters only and we don't have to wait 'til Monday to see it online. Best of both worlds...

http://youtu.be/nyc6RJEEe0U

Good teaser - it certainly looks like the premise is the same from the script. I remember something simlilar (if not the same)as the last shot in the teaser being in the script.

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I was actually trying to figure that out. The details from what I read of the script are already fuzzy. I'm assuming that last shot is THE rocket that McConaughey & co. are on? If so, I don't remember the launch site being anywhere near McConaughey's farm, as that's likely his father-in-law and daughter watching that rocket (Nolan changed it from two sons to a son & daughter). Didn't McConaughey have to fly his plane to get to the NASA base? That main bit of footage is definitely McConaughey driving away crying after having left his family, seeing them for the last time. But I don't remember a rocket launch being visible from the farm. Seems awfully coincidental if it is.


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They could place his farm near the coast with the island base base being a decent distance away. I do agree that is their farm with the rocket rising above corn crop. I think as long as it's on an island, that could explain and family not knowing about the base...

Also that shot may have been made just for the trailer, it shows several important aspects of the script, the corn, the rocket, his kid, his father in law, and the title stretched vertically like the rocket. Gave a very good taste of the script while not being necessary for the movie.

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Is it possible Nolan would have shot that just for the trailer?

He seems to always have footage in his trailer that isn't in the final cut of the movie

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I'm hoping that's the case. Because even if the farm is close to the coast, and the base is on an island, from that view, it's still a pretty close island. And if it just so happens that the one, forward-thinking, space-obsessed engineer needed for the mission happens to live that close to the one, secret NASA base planning an interstellar mission, it's going to take a REALLY good explanation for me to get past that. And maybe Nolan has one. I trust him, obviously. But yeah, hopefully it's more of a conceptual thing for the trailer only.


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Just checked, and in the Jonathan Nolan draft the underground NASA facility is located on Santa Cruz Island, which is maybe 15 miles or so off the coast of Southern California. Directly east of Malibu. McConaughey's farm is in "central California." So, with a slight location tweak, I guess they'd potentially be able to see the rocket launch from the farm...




And though it's not directly stated, the assumed reason the covert NASA group chose the island is not only for its relative solitude, but also because of its proximity to the nearby sunken naval fleet where they get their spare parts. So, it's all somewhat explained. Though, it's still a little too coincidental that a secret NASA base with a mission to save the world just happens to be a matter of miles from the space-enthusiast engineer / main character. Then again, there have been far greater coincidences in many great movies. I totally get it.

Anyway, here's the version of the scene in the J. Nolan draft, where it's just McConaughey's son who watches, not his father-in-law and daughter...



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Does anyone have a short synopsis for this movie?

It's personal taste, but McConaughey's voice completely killed the enthusiasm I had for the trailer.

I'm sure the movie will be great.

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Considering the somewhat complicated plot, this is as short a synopsis as I could come up with, hopefully without spoiling anything the trailers won't be spoiling...

Basically, in a quick, opening sequence showcased in a really cool, scientifically-sound way, a present-day a team of scientists learn of the existence of a wormhole connecting our solar system with one unfathomably far away. Point is, it's concluded that there's no way a wormhole can exist on its own. A wormhole has to be stabilized and it would take an insanely advanced species to do so. So, opening scene is wormhole discovery, hint at alien life.

Cut to 50 years later and the world is now a mess. I hate to even bring it up because the way half of TexAgs reacts, but there's an element of global warming at play, which is only one of the reasons the world is like it is. The population is running out of food and we get the impression that most people are now farmers, trying to grow, sell and eat what they can, but even the crops are becoming contaminated due to some infectious “blight.” Whole aspects of government have shut down, the infrastructure has gone to hell, but things have finally somewhat evened out now, and society may even be on an upswing. There are still schools, colleges, businesses, corporations, etc., though most of society has lost their sense of innovation and exploration. Not in an Idiocracy kind of way, but in more of a responsible, we've-got-to-concentrate-on-just-getting-by kind of way. Much in line with the trailer, it's basically Nolan saying this is what will happen if we stop exploring, stop reaching for the stars. So it's less of a global warming warning and more of a movie aimed at the morons currently responsible for cutting NASA funding. And I love that.

Anyway, McConaughey's character is a farmer who lives with his two kids and father-in-law (while a mother-in-law may have been added). McConaughey's wife died from cancer years ago, and he's a brilliant an engineer. The problem is that there’s no real use for his skills in this world. He’s rigged all kinds of ingenious contraptions and, in general, seems to be doing fairly well. Though, you really get the sense that he’s ultimately a space-obsessed man out-of-time, longs for more, etc.

Anyway, long story short, by way of some work he once did in Galveston, he comes across a mysterious, downed NASA probe, which ultimately leads him to an island off the coast of California. It's on this island that he discovers a secret, underground facility where a team of specialists (lead by one of the now-much-older scientists from the opening scene) are building a rocket. The downed-probe is theirs, and it’s somewhat implied that certain members of this group are what’s left of NASA. Ultimately, the plan is for a small team to take the rocket and rendezvous with a nuclear-powered spaceship being built in-orbit, one that will ultimately take them through the wormhole to a newly-discovered planet (discovered via the probe) where this group can start a new human colony.

Scientist who are part of this covert operation have discovered that the “blight” affecting the crops is only getting worse, there’s no cure, and that, essentially, “the Earth has had enough of us.” So this is a mission to save humanity. A team will go through the wormhole - which has arguably been built/made by some unknown, higher intelligence, almost as an invitation - and they’ll establish a colony on the new planet, then make as many trips as they can, and bring back as many people as they can, before the world goes completely to hell. Before the launch, McConaughey ultimately proves himself valuable, and is invited to join the crew making the initial trip. He refuses at first, but ultimately decides that by attempting to save humanity, he’s saving his family, etc. and finally decides to leave his family behind and make the interstellar voyage.

From there, think Inception in space, which is basically the second half, if not more, of the movie. The wormhole ultimately causes trippy distortions in time for the crew, on a "voyage to furthest reaches of scientific understanding."


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Sounds fun. Thanks, TC.

Sounds more like 2001 than Inception in space.

^ Agreed. Was referring more to the time bending trippiness of Inception rather than the plot. Definitely more 2001 in nature, though.

Maybe they'll see Ernest Borgnine and Maximllian in the wormhole.

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I think the movie will be much better if this happens because nobody has seen this approach before. Stagnation and apathy are some of humanity's worst enemies.

Saw the trailer this afternoon before Hobbit 2. I've been avoiding this thread because it seems awfully spoilery, but I thought it was s great teaser trailer. I have no knowledge of the synopsis, but if pressed to guess after the teaser:

Modern day dust bowl forces the world to populate space, with mcconaughey serving as our interstellar John Smith.

Looks really solid, though. But then again, so did Tree of Life and The Fountain. So who knows.

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Movies can, more than any other medium, inspire people. I hope this movie does.

Great trailer. It's a little thing but I love how Interstellar gets spelled out vertically. It's little touched like that that matter and that too many overlook.

I also agree this thread is a bit spoilery. I've skipped most posts but did accidentally see things like a mention of an underground NASA center so I have begun to avoid the thread.

^ Everyone who has read the old draft of the script has done a fairly good job of using spoiler tags so far, but I'll try to cut back on any script talk from here on out. Though, I've hopefully avoided discussing anything that won't be shown in the trailers. The NASA base will likely be front and center in the marketing. It's basically what the whole movie hinges on.

And I agree about the title being spelled vertically. Such a great little attention to detail. Something you never see done in any other trailers.