In 2014, Christopher Nolan began production on his new film, Interstellar.

His first task is to find a setting for the film. He has a particular requirement, he wants his main character to live next to a cornfield and he wants there to be a mountain on the horizon.

Problem: there is no cornfield near a mountain in a location that could accommodate the filming of the film.

Christopher Nolan not ready to reconsider his vision of a cornfield with a mountain in the background, he decides to grow a cornfield especially for the film, outside of Calgary, Canada.

You are never better served than by yourself…

Nolan then brings in corn experts and asks them for advice.

The first thing he is told is that the place he has chosen is not suitable for growing corn. The ground is not good. The corn won’t hold.

Nolan replies that he doesn’t care if the corn lasts, he just wants it to last long enough to film.

We then told him that it would be simpler to create the cornfield by computer. But the director, a perfectionist before the eternal, does not want CGI. He’s seen what Hollywood corn is and he doesn’t want it. It’s too poorly done.