5. Spielberg Started Work On The Project Back In 2006
All the way back in 2006, when films like The Dark Knight and Inception were still just ideas moving around in Christopher Nolan's head, the world's favourite director, Steven Spielberg, announced that he would direct a movie about "a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension," one based on a treatment written by Kip Thorne and producer Linda Obst. The film was proposed back then to be "scientifically accurate." Now that the esteemed filmmaker has officially left the project (he eventually cited it as ill-suited to his taste), we're still wondering just exactly how it might've turned out with Spielberg at the helm, though we somehow can't help but feel as though Nolan is simply better suited to the project. No word yet whether Spielberg will stay on in a producing role, but fingers crossed he sticks around.