Wha huh? Didn't this film just get made by Sir Christopher Of Nolan? Yes, the director of the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception was the one to eventually shepherd the story of wormholes and family matters into cinemas, but the story started with Spielberg. Way back in 2006 he announced that he'd be directing a scientifically accurate film about "a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension", based on a treatment by theoretical physicist Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst. Spielberg continued to work on the project as Jonathan Nolan and scientists from Caltech were brought on to flesh out the treatment into a screenplay, before abandoning it and allowing Christopher Nolan to take the helm. Considering the mixed reviews Interstellar has been getting - centring on the director's oft-mentioned inability to create convincing human drama - it would've been interesting to see Spielberg's supposedly very different take.
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