20 Fictional Movie Gadgets Fans Forced Brands To Make

For much of Christopher Nolan’s film, a wristwatch is carrying considerably more than the time. Cooper leaves it with his daughter before departing Earth, and much later the moving seconds hand becomes the means by which vital information travels across an impossible distance. Hamilton had created the watch specifically for Interstellar, which meant viewers who connected with that father-daughter story could not simply visit a jeweler afterward and buy one. They certainly tried. Hamilton says requests to manufacture “the Murph” began from day one.