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1 INTERSTELLAR written byJonathan Nolan and Christopher NolanTransferred to PDF from:" INTERSTELLAR - The CompleteScreenplay with SelectedStoryboards"Published November 2014 byFaber & Faber Ltd. (UK)FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLYBLACK. THE GENTLE SOUND OF WIND IN CORNA row of books. From spaces between them, dust N T E R S T E L L A RELDERLY FEMALE VOICE( )Sure. Dad was a CORN STALKS FILL THE FRAME, SWAYING IN THE BREEZEELDERLY FEMALE VOICE( )Like everybody else back wind is RISING, shaking the plants more FORCEFULLY ..Insert cut: a WOMAN in her eighties against a WOMANC ourse, he didn t start that WIND IS HOWLING, SHRIEKING and we RIP INTO -EXT. THE STRATOSPHERE - DAYBURNING through the fringes of space -INT.

2 COCKPIT - CONTINUOUSA young PILOT fights his BUFFETING craft -RADIO( )Computer says you re too tight -PILOTI got this -The Pilot grabs a panicked glance at his instruments -RADIO( )Crossing the Straights .. shuttingit down, Cooper. Shutting it alldown .. ! I need the power up -EXT. THE STRATOSPHERE - CONTINUOUSThe BLACK and RED SKY starts SPINNING HORRIFYINGLY -INT. COCKPIT - DAYAs the controls RIP themselves free, the pilot SHOUTS and we-CUT TO:INT. BEDROOM, FARMHOUSE - NIGHTA man WAKES, nightmare SWEATY. This is GIRL S VOICE( )Dad? Dad?Cooper turns: in the doorway - his sleepy ten-year-olddaughter. This is Go back to thought you were the s no ghost, says you can get Grandpa s a little too closeto being one himself.

3 Back you dreaming about the crash?COOPERBack to sleep, shuffles back out the door. Cooper moves to thewindow. DAWN breaks over an ENDLESS SEA OF CORN .. FEMALE VOICE( )Corn, sure. But dust. In your ears,your CUT: AN OLD-TIMER IN CLOSE UP, WATERY-EYED, DESCRIBESDUST BOWL ( )Dust just everywhere. COOPER S FARM - MORNINGAn old man, handkerchief across his face, sweeps dust out ofthe door onto the porch. This is Grandpa (DONALD).INT. KITCHEN, FARMHOUSE - MORNINGC ooper pours himself coffee as Donald puts grits on thetable. TOM, Cooper s fifteen-year-old son, stuffs his , wet hair, towel around neck, plays with pieces of aMODEL (a lunar lander).DONALDNot at the table, , can you fix this?COOPER(takes pieces, frowning)What d you do to my lander?

4 MURPHWasn t guess - your ghost?MURPHIt knocked it off my shelf. Itkeeps knocking books s no such things as ghosts,dumb-ass (to Tom)Hey -MURPHI looked it up, it s called , tell , you know that s say science is about admittingwhat we don t s got you (hands her pieces)Start looking after our looks at Cooper, admonishing. Cooper Murph, you wanna talkscience, don t just tell me you rescared of some ghost - record thefacts, analyze, present gets up, grabs his up.(Off look.)Parent-teacher conferences. Parent - not grandparent .EXT. FARMHOUSE - MOMENTS LATERThe kids pile into an old pickup truck, scraping DUST offthe seats. Cooper, coffee in hand, peers at a black storm?DONALD(shakes his head)Nelson s torching his whole re saying it s the lastharvest for okra.

5 Stares at the smoke. Uneasy. Gets into the planted corn like the restof nice to Miss Hanley. She s that supposed to mean?DONALDR epopulating the Earth - startpulling your minding your PICKUP TRUCK ON DIRT ROAD - MOMENTS LATERC ooper sips his coffee, steering while Murph shifts -COOPEROkay, gimme second -Murph wrestles the long gear stick into second. Cooper third -Murph struggles to find third - a gear, up, Tom!BANG - A TIRE BLOWS OUT. Cooper stops the d you do, Murph?COOPERShe didn t do anything. We lost atire is s up, gets out of the truck, checks the flat, turns to the is the , patch m I supposed to patch it outhere?COOPERF igure it out. I m not always goingto be here to help moves to the back of the truck.

6 Murph is d you and Mom name me aftersomething bad?COOPERWe didn s Law?COOPERM urphy s Law doesn t mean bad stuffwill happen. It means whatever canhappen, will happen . And thatsounded just fine to frowns, hearing something ..COOPERWhat?Then Cooper hears it, too. A LOW RUMBLE. Cooper GRABS Murphas a DRONE SOARS low overhead -COOPERCome on!Cooper jumps into the truck - he pulls out a laptop andantenna hands them to Murph - shouts at Tom -COOPERGet in!TOM(jack in hand)What about the tire? PICKUP TRUCK THROUGH FIELDS - MOMENTS LATERC lose on the SHREDDING TIRE as the truck BARRELS throughcornfields. Murph fires up the laptop. Cooper strains to seethrough the cornstalks, scanning the horizon -TOMT here!To the right, the dark shape of the drone, cruising low overthe fields.

7 Cooper JERKS the wheel - the drone has long,thin wings like a U-2, but no air force surveillancedrone. Solar cells could power anentire farm.(To Tom.)Take the wheel -Tom takes the wheel - Cooper hands Murph the it pointed right at it -Cooper works the laptop - the screen fills with , Tom. I m losing WEAVES through the corn - they round a corner, almostHIT a HARVESTER - BANG - the truck loses a wing mirror -Ahead the drone SOARS, banking, pulling away truck BURSTS out of the corn, Cooper s nose is in got it. Don t front of them, the drone plummets from view into the nextvalley - the path ahead leads to a three-hundred-foot ..Cooper looks !Tom locks up the brakes. Cooper looks at him - he told me to keep grabs the laptop and opens the that answers the if I toldyou to drive off a cliff is still pointing the lost (smiles)No, we didn DRONE SOARS BACK OVER THEM - Cooper is moving hisfingers across the track pad, PILOTING THE the kids watch, Cooper sends the drone soaring over them,banking above the valley.

8 Cooper crouches next to to give it a whirl?Murph, guided by Cooper, moves her fingers across the trackpad - the massive drone BANKS in response. Murph is s set her down next to RIVERBANK - MOMENTS LATERThe truck limps up to the drone. Cooper and the kids climbdown. Cooper runs a hand along the smooth carbon flank ofthe long you think it s been upthere?COOPERD elhi mission control went downsame as ours, ten years s been up there ten years? Why dit come down so low?COOPERSun finally cooked its brain. Or itcame down looking for kind of signal. Who knows?Cooper finds an access hatch. Pries it open. Examines theblack-box brain of the are you going to do with it?COOPERGive it something sociallyresponsible to do, like drive t we just let it go?

9 It snot hurting looks down at his daughter. Good thing has to adapt, just likethe rest of COUNTY SCHOOL - DAYThe truck pulls up to school, drone fuselage hanging s this work? You guys comewith?TOMI ve got class. But she ..Pats Murph on to glares at Tom as he hops What?MURPHDad, I had a thing .. well,they ll tell you about it. Just tryand ..COOPERAm I gonna be mad?MURPHNot with me. Just try not to -COOPERR elax, I got pulls out a notebook. Starts drawing a PRINCIPAL S OFFICE - LATER (MORNING)Cooper enters, awkward. The PRINCIPAL (male, fifties) turnsfrom the late, Coop.(Indicates chair.)Guess you had to stop off at theAsian fighter plane (sits, smiles)Actually, sir, it s a surveillancedrone. With outstanding nods at Murph s teacher, Ms Hanley, thirties, got Tom s scores back.

10 He sgoing to make an excellent Principal slides a paper across the (taken aback)What about college?PRINCIPALThe university only takes ahandful. They don t have resources-COOPERI m still paying taxes - where sthat go? There s no more to the university. Coop, youhave to be re ruling him out for collegenow? He s s score simply isn t re you? About athirty-six-inch waist?(Beat.)Thirty-inch inseam?PRINCIPALI m not sure I see what -COOPERYou re telling me you need twonumbers to measure your own ass,but just one to measure my son sfuture?Ms Hanley stifles a laugh. The Principal shoots her a re a well educated man, Coop. Atrained pilot -COOPERAnd an Well, right now the worlddoesn t need more engineers. Wedidn t run out of planes, ortelevision sets.