20 Things You Didn't Know About Interstellar

19. The Score Is So Loud That It Broke An IMAX Theatre

IMAX screen
IMAX Corporation

Anyone who's watched a Nolan movie in IMAX knows that the experience is akin to having your eardrums repeatedly pummelled, and when Interstellar first released, one such IMAX theatre paid the price for the filmmaker's aggressive audio mixes.

At an advance critic screening in San Francisco, the speakers blew and the audio cut out completely, which was swiftly followed by the screen going dark. Then, after several minutes of trying to get things up and running again, the screening was outright cancelled.

Hardly an ideal first impression!

Contributor
Contributor

Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!