20 Things You Didn't Know About Interstellar
2. The Story Was Inspired By... Avatar And Wall-E?!
During that early version of the project involving Steven Spielberg and Jonathan Nolan, the younger Nolan brother struggled with the idea of making a realistic space movie. He even went so far as to say that "my take on a realistic space-exploration film was simple: It’s not going to happen."
Obviously though, he eventually cracked the story, and some of the movies he drew inspiration from might come as a surprise.
Around the same time that Jonathan was writing Interstellar, Hollywood was releasing apocalyptic sci-fi flicks like Avatar and Wall-E, and it was this trend that inspired him to set the film in a blight-ridden dystopia.
At the same time, he also wanted Interstellar to be a tale of hope, which - despite the bleak circumstances the characters find themselves in - is another element that all three movies share.