1. The Ending Sees Cooper Leave For Adventure With TARS
Of course, things don't end up in such a downbeat manner; this is still a blockbuster after all. Cooper is saved and taken for medical attention on the Cooper Station, where meets up with one of his descendants (although not Murph), just as in the finished film. He then takes TARS and heads off back through the wormhole and into the vastness of space. Now that all sounds very familiar, but it's motivated from an entirely different emotional place. In the first draft it's in a fit of spontaneity, with one of humanity's greatest explorers bored by a mundane life as a farmer; yes he goes off with TARS in a hunt for Dr. Brand, but it's the thirst for adventure (and love), not human salvation, that's driving him. This personifies the central difference between the two versions of Interstellar. The film we've all just experienced in cinemas is about humanity, the survival of the species and what our future holds. These elements play a part in the first draft, but its scope is, if anything, broader; it's discovering our place in the stars, how we fit into the wider universe and that we're far from the centre of it all. Which version of the Interstellar story do you prefer? Would you have like to have seen Steven Spielberg direct this version? Have your say in the comments below.
