Stories from the set

At the beginning of the film, McConaughey's character tosses a coin to the very end of the dusty path; in the next shot, the coin is in the middle of it.

When Cooper calms his daughter, the chain on her neck changes position: it is either under her T-shirt or over it, depending on the angle.

In one of the film's scenes, before the protagonist gives his daughter a wristwatch, he hugs her with the arm on which the watch is worn, and the position of the hands on the dial is visible. In the next shot, when the same watch is being given, the hands are in a completely different position, even though only a negligible amount of time has passed.

On the ice planet, Mann pushes Cooper off a cliff, but in the following scenes of their fight, the terrain is just hilly, with no cliff at all.

In the scene where Dr. Mann, having docked with the «Endurance», tries to get inside the ship, he is in the docking port connecting the two modules. Given the ship's design, Mann should have been trying to open a door leading to the right or left. However, instead he was opening a door directly in front of him, which apparently led into open space.

The landing diagram for the water planet, drawn by Coop, looks different by the end of the episode (the circle is wider).

Steven Spielberg had been attached to the project since 2006 and hired Jonathan Nolan to write the script, but postponed the work and took on other films. In 2012, after Spielberg finally left, Jonathan Nolan suggested hiring his brother Christopher Nolan as director.

When Spielberg was still attached to the project as director, he planned to star Will Smith in the lead role. Later, after Spielberg stepped down as director, the role went to Matthew McConaughey.

This is Christopher Nolan's first film since «Following» (1998) shot without cinematographer Wally Pfister. Instead of Pfister, Nolan hired cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema.

The film was originally handled by Paramount. When Christopher Nolan took over as director, Warner Bros., which had released his recent films, secured involvement in the project. In exchange for international distribution rights, Warner Bros. gave Paramount the rights to co-finance future sequels to the films "Friday the 13th" (2009) and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (1999).