A bot exits a landing craft on location in Iceland. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
A bot exits a landing craft on location in Iceland.
“They really live to serve the mission. They know they’re expendable. But they’re also very close to human intelligence and soul.” —Bill Irwin, voice and operator of TARS ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
“They really live to serve the mission. They know they’re expendable. But they’re also very close to human intelligence and soul.” —Bill Irwin, voice and operator of TARS
Bill Irwin working the bot on location in Iceland. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
Bill Irwin working the bot on location in Iceland.
Despite the bot's non-humanoid form, the actors focused on its screens as if they were a face. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
Despite the bot's non-humanoid form, the actors focused on its screens as if they were a face.
The aluminum skeleton and control mechanisms behind the 200-pound bot's stainless-steel skin. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
The aluminum skeleton and control mechanisms behind the 200-pound bot's stainless-steel skin.
TARS assumes a prone position during spaceflight. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
TARS assumes a prone position during spaceflight.
While filming the scenes in Iceland, two of the bots corroded so badly that they had to be completely disassembled and rebuilt. ©2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
While filming the scenes in Iceland, two of the bots corroded so badly that they had to be completely disassembled and rebuilt.
While Christopher Nolan was making Interstellar, he decided to show a model of the movie’s bots to his kids. They were extremely disappointed. “That’s not a robot,” they told him. “That’s a box.” Well, it’s true: Nolan’s intelligent machines, which he dreamed up with production designer Nathan Crowley, look for all the universe like slabs of metal. The main bot, named TARS (which doesn’t stand for anything), might as well be a distant cousin of 2001‘s monolith. Then again, nothing in Nolan’s world(s) is what it seems. “When I let my kids play with the model, open it up, see different combinations,” he says, “they started getting really excited.” Let’s peek inside the box.
At Rest
“Crutch Walk”
Two-legged walk
“The Wheel”
Chris Philpot
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