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Christopher Nolan speaks here of two pertinent visits to the cinema to see sci-fi epics. The first time round around it was ''Star Wars'', and the young cinema craftsman in the making became an avid fan, who eventually found the story and nature of the film's construction almost as epic, invigorating and absorbing as the movie itself. After that came a chance to see a re-release of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', upon which Nolan reports ''information about the making of KubricksKubrick's masterpiece was harder to come by than Lucas's.'' You don't need me to tell you that nowadays information about making of movie magic is all around us – the trailers and camera diaries of set footage advertising upcoming blockbusters in parallel with each other, the DVD and Blu-Ray ray extras, and so on. And I'm sure a lot of that is evident with the example of ''Interstellar'', Chris Nolan's attempt to bridge the gap between ''Star Wars'' and ''2001'' and create a thinking woman's emotional, family sci-fi epic. Likewise, too, this book, which is a happy ground between being told only the bare outlines, and the full-on, nothing-kept-sacred smorgasbord detail of a Blu-Ray. A very happy ground, indeed, that will leave many a happy reader.
I haven't seen the film in question, but have heard enough, and have received enough intimations and clues to piece a lot of the work together mentally. So I think I can safely say this book does give one major spoiler away, by not only confirming but adding to something I barely knew about, but does not give us any concluding beats of the film's narrative – the only storyline ended on these pages is the main focus, that of the creation of the film. Like as not, however, you are turning to this volume having sat through the three hours of the movie, and want to know more – and of course, in this instance, to possess a wonderful memento (pun intended) of the movie that will work as a source of detailed information long after the home viewing options have arrived on your shelves/hard drives.
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.
To look back in time a little as regards sci-fi, the latest coffee-table brightener I found much favour with was [[Battlestar Galactica Vault: The Complete History Of The Series, 1978-2012 by Paul Ruditis]]. You might also enjoy [[Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History by Michael Klastorin and Randal Atamaniuk]].
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