Interstellar's Original Ending Was Dark, Hopeless and So Dumb We Can't Even

Although he accomplishes his goal in the end, he finds himself arriving in the future. Where he learns of his mission's success and fulfils the promise to his now elderly daughter.

However, the original ending for the film was to be quite different and extremely depressing. We wonder why they ever considered it in the first place.

Christopher Nolan 's 2014 space epic is not only considered one of his best films to date but widely regarded by the scientific community as being one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever made.

Praised for its attention to detail and scientific accuracy, there is not much about the film that many people criticise except for its highly imaginative ending.

Which switches from completely factual to widely conceptual in a matter of minutes. Yet for the obscure notions of multi-dimensional beings and contacting the past with gravity manipulation, it is a much more fitting ending than the more scientifically accurate finale that was originally intended.

Discussing the film at a Blu-ray release event previously, co-writer Jonathan Nolan revealed his initial ending for the movie. It involved the wormhole that McConaughey's character, Cooper, falls into was to collapse around him.

Meaning that he would never have reached the tesseract or had the opportunity to deliver the message to Murph, which consequently saves the human race and himself in the process.

Assuming that to be true, TARS would have also been consumed by the collapsing black hole. Along with the data he was attempting to transmit back to Earth.

The result of this depressing ending is assumed to have been that the mission would have failed. Brand would have died alone on the final planet, humanity would likely have declined, and Cooper's sacrifice would have been for nothing.

It certainly is a more accurate conclusion, but it makes the previous two-and-a-half hours of the film seem potentially pointless.

Jonathan added it was his brother Christopher who came up with the idea of the 5th-dimensional tesseract. And although it is a more fanciful concept than Jonathan's original ending, it is also more uplifting. Conveying a feeling of closure and purpose to Cooper's story.

For those who say that the ending is fraught with inaccuracies and an overly-confusing plot, Neil deGrasse Tyson explored the ideas of black holes and time travel within the film for himself.

He concluded that because we do not know what is actually in a black hole, there is no saying if it is accurate.

And that is perhaps the only justification needed for Christopher's ending. A Sci-Fi film depicting the future of humanity's space travel should not just be a thriller with a tragic conclusion. It should have a degree of wild imagination. It needs that aspect of hope.