How Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' turned general relativity into the bad guy
19-07-2026 16:00 via space.com

How Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' turned general relativity into the bad guy

The biggest blockbusters of 2014 threw up a varied rogues' gallery of bad guys. In "Transformers: Age of Extinction", it was a reincarnated version of Optimus Prime's perma-nemesis, Megatron, while Captain America faced off against a reborn Hydra infiltrating the upper echelons of the US government in "The Winter Soldier". For Spider-Man, it was Electro, while Maleficent showed up in live-action to give Sleeping Beauty nightmares. Christopher Nolan has never been one to go with the Hollywood cro
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