Ellie Arroway in Contact (1997), an adaptation of a novel written by famous scientist Carl Sagan. This is a potent and moving illustration of the sacrifices that deep space travel will involve. In one particularly heartbreaking scene, McConaughey breaks down in tears as he watches decades of saved video messages from his son, knowing that although he is only months away from Earth from his perspective, his child has grown old and will die long before he can return home. Until we find a way to actually travel past lightspeed, we’re not going to know how accurate those effects really were, but by using cutting-edge astrophysics as his basis rather than just what looked cool, Nolan was already ahead of the sci fi herd.Ĭredit, too, for using the time dilation inherent in Einstein’s theory of relativity to not only advance the plot, but to underscore the painful human drama. Though much of what it depicts is purely theoretical, such as the mind-bending finale built around the time-warping effects of wormholes, Nolan went out of his way to make sure that he was at least working from real scientific theories.įor the film’s visually disorientating representations of what it would look like to travel past the event horizon of a wormhole, Nolan turned to Nobel Prize winning physicist Kip Thorne, who put together equations that the computer effects team then used to generate their dizzying spacetime distortions. His retirement is brought to an end as he's recruited for an experimental deep, deep space mission to locate new habitable planets through a wormhole.
Matthew McConaughey stars as Joe Cooper, a melancholy former astronaut who is scratching out a living as a farmer on a near-future Earth rapidly turning into an arid dust bowl. The search for an alternative home for humanity has been the basis of many a sci-fi story, but few have been as evocative – or as grounded in theoretical physics – as Christopher Nolan’s quantum melodrama, Interstellar. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain.The science of I nterstellar (2014) is grounded in theoretical physics and dabbles in cutting-edge astrophysics, too.
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