History WMG / Interstellar

[[WMG: Let's face it this is a prequel to almost everything!]]

[[WMG: It is the prequel to ''Film/EventHorizon'']]

[[WMG: In the original script, the wormhole led to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Court of Azathoth]].]]

[[WMG: The future alien/human things are [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]] that evolved from the humans.]]

[[WMG: The wormhole is a [[MetaFiction metafictional]] passageway that leads to another movie of a [[Main/GenreShift different genre]].]]
The movie starts out as hard science fiction, so space travel is depicted in a somewhat realistic manner: the Ranger needs a launch vehicle and the transit to Saturn takes two years. After going through the wormhole, the characters are effectively in a softer work, where the Ranger can land and take off on its own power and leap from planet to planet in a short time, and where you [[spoiler:can plunge into a black hole and live]].

[[WMG: Something akin to the [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Universal Century]] happened to mankind.]]
Towards the end, [[spoiler:following Cooper's final, several decades-long TimeSkip]], there's a large orbiting space colony orbiting Saturn [[spoiler:named Cooper Station]], that vaguely resembles an O'Neill Cylinder colony ala the UC Gundam continuity, with several more mentioned as being en route. This could be explained as the deteriorating conditions on Earth prompting humanity to find a feasible way to both move and live off-world through vast artificial ships, leaving behind those whose souls remained weighed down by gravity. Except unlike the UC timeline, there wasn't enough time or drive for an Earth Federation analogue to form [[spoiler:especially since Cooper Station is all but explicitly an American colony]].

[[WMG: The Arks are built using abandoned cities as raw materials.]]

[[WMG: The film is a prequel to ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.]]

[[WMG: The film is a sequel to ''Film/{{Transcendence}}''.]]
...At least [[http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/interstellar-is-a-sequel-to-transcendence.php in spirit]]. After Will Castor's second murder, there are only small pockets of technology left - Boston has phone service, for instance. But in general, "There are no smartphones, let alone ones with personalities to fall in love with. There aren’t even many computers, save for a laptop used by Matthew [=McConaughey=]‘s more tech-friendly character. Look at the emptiness of an administrator’s desk when he has a meeting at his kids’ school. In the same scene, a teacher spouts an exposition-laden belief that people of the 20th century were wasteful and excessive and spent too much money on “useless machines.” Given the dialogue and the apparent dependency on textbooks with a rewritten history of the (faked) Apollo program, we can assume there is no longer any Wikipedia, or any internet whatsoever. Outside of the secret NASA facility, it’s a fairly analog world, one in which almost everybody is a farmer."

[[WMG: The film is a sequel to ''Film/Evolution2001''.]]

[[WMG: The PowerOfLove is just Cooper's imperfect theory.]]

[[WMG: Dr. Brand will greet Cooper with an armload of babies.]]

[[WMG: ''Interstellar'' takes place in the Mario universe, specifically ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'']]

[[WMG: The events of ''Inception'' are a dream happening after the events of ''Interstellar'']]

[[WMG: The disease is the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke biological]] warfare]]

[[WMG: This film is set in an alternate universe of ''[[WesternAnimation/WallE WALL•E]]'']]

[[WMG: When TARS spoke to Cooper inside the black hole, it was actually the fifth dimension beings using his voice.]]

[[WMG: ''Interstellar'' is a prequel to ''Franchise/StarWars'' that doesn't suck.]]

[[WMG: ''Film/TheMartian'' is a prequel to ''Interstellar''.]]
* With StrongFamilyResemblance in full play here. The Earth is beginning to suffer the blight that affects all crops on the planet, so NASA begins Project Ares to colonize Mars. Of course, that plan ended with Ares 3's Mark Watney incident, and all the cost that had gone in the effort to rescue Watney from Mars forced NASA to shut down, or rather, went underground per the President's orders. Watney himself went on to build a family that will eventually lead to the birth of his IdenticalGrandson Dr. Mann, while Commander Lewis's generations will lead to the birth of Cooper, who himself fathers his GenerationXerox daughter Murph. All of this, including the events happening in ''The Martian'', are in fact [[spoiler: [[TheChessmaster engineered by the Fifth Dimensional beings in order to send Cooper into the black hole and ensures humanity's survival.]] ]]

[[WMG: Interstellar is an alternate reality from the ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' multiverse]]

[[WMG: Seeing [[spoiler: Murph in the Hospital wasn't the last time that Cooper would see his daughter]]]]
Think about it, you've got wormholes and the ability to send information back in time. What if [[spoiler: Murph was (relatively) quick to have her father leave because though it would be the last time she'd see him, it was far from the last time he'd see her? There's a lot of time between Murph's cracking the gravity equation to Cooper's recovery. Perhaps Cooper was able to travel through time and space and reconnect with his children and their children. If so, Murph knew that he had to go back through the wormhole to Brand.]]

[[WMG: some of the other Lazarus astronauts are rescued]]

[[WMG: The film is a sequel to ''Film/{{Evolution}}''.]]

The movie starts out as [[Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction]], so space travel is depicted in a somewhat realistic manner: the Ranger needs a launch vehicle and the transit to Saturn takes two years. After going through the wormhole, the characters are effectively in a softer work, where the Ranger can land and take off on its own power and leap from planet to planet in a short time, and where you [[spoiler:can plunge into a black hole and live]].