Netflix fans over the moon as modern sci-fi classic is added: ‘This is how 2025 should start’

Netflix fans are going crazy after the streamer added the hugely popular film Interstellar to the platform on January 1.

Christopher Nolan’s space epic, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as astronauts on a mission to save Earth, was first released in theaters in 2014.

Set in a dystopian future where Earth suffers from catastrophic plague and famine, Interstellar follows a group of astronauts as they travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.

As they carry out their mission to find a new home for humanity, their loved ones on a dystopian Earth are ravaged by blight and crop failures and are aging rapidly.

And to make matters worse, the planet they’re headed to experiences a ‘time dilation’ due to its proximity to a supermassive black hole, meaning 23 years will have passed by the time they get back home.

In a tear-jerking scene, McConaughey’s character watches his children grow up via video messages sent to the team’s distant ship, many light years away.

As for X, formerly Twitter, social media users and Netflix subscribers rejoiced as they celebrated the film’s availability to stream.

One said: ‘Oh wow, Interstellar on Netflix just made my New Year’s Day! Time to dive back into that epic space adventure!’

Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway

Another wrote: ‘Finally being able to watch the docking scene on my TV for the hundredth time instead of through YouTube clips – this is how 2025 should start.’

“This is the good news I needed today,” a third wrote. ‘My favorite movie.’

Echoing a similar sentiment, a fourth said: ‘Interstellar is on Netflix. I didn’t think I’d be crying this early in the year.’

‘That’s great news!’ a fifth added. “Interstellar is a cinematic masterpiece and it’s great that more people can now access it.”

The blockbuster, which has earned a whopping $740.7 million at the box office, currently has a 72 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

After its release in 2014, it was nominated for five Oscars and won the award for Best Visual Effects.

Speaking about how the film came together, director Nolan said he “jumped at the chance” to be involved.

He told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015: ‘The project was originally developed by Lynda Obst.

Interstellar was first released in theaters worldwide in 2014

Netflix subscribers rejoiced as they celebrated the film’s availability to stream

‘She is good friends with Kip Thorne, an astrophysicist at Cal Tech, and their dream was to make a science fiction film where the more bizarre concepts were derived from real science.

“They originally developed the film with Steven Spielberg at Paramount and hired my brother to come up with a story and script.

“He and I talk about all kinds of things, whether we’re working on it together or not, so I’d heard about it in the four years he’d been working on it, and I really felt like there was an extraordinary opportunity to bring another to tell a very intimate story about human connections and relationships and contrast this with the cosmic scale of the overall events.’

Nolan added: “So when I got the opportunity to get involved, I wanted to take it, because I feel like these types of opportunities are few and far between, where you really see what something could be, in terms of what the balance is. lies between the emotional side of the story and the magnitude of the thing, the vastness of what the story is trying to encompass.”