If you emerged from Interstellar with a load of questions pinging their way around your brain, you’re in luck. Well, not if you were hoping for some additional insight as to how the world got to be so dusty, but about another key element of the plot that, suffice to say heads into spoiler territory. Co-writer/director Christopher Nolan has created a comic to fill in some backstory and you can head over to Wired to take a look.
Again, we caution that we’ll be lightly touching upon an element of the plot that occurs later on, so fire your emergency thrusters and rocket away from the page if you’ve yet to see the film.
For those who have gazed upon Nolan’s latest, Interstellar eventually finds Matthew McConaughey’s Cooper, Anne Hathaway’s Brand and David Gyasi’s Romily touching down on a frozen wasteland of a planet that one of the earlier, Project Lazarus mission astronauts nevertheless claims might be a viable new habitat for humanity. But when they awaken said space pioneer, Dr. Mann (Matt Damon) from his cryo-sleep, they soon discover that the not-so glorious isolation has left his judgment severely impaired. In short: he’s gone a little space crazy. The new comic, written by Nolan and drawn by Sean Gordon Murphy, fills in what happened to Mann after he landed on the frosty planet with robo-companion KIPP.
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