 For further inspiration, the director invited former astronaut Marsha Ivins to the set.Nolan and his crew studied the IMAX NASA documentaries of filmmaker Toni Myers for visual reference of spacefaring missions, and strove to imitate their use of IMAX cameras in the enclosed spaces of spacecraft interiors.Clark Kent's upbringing in "Man of Steel" (2013) was the inspiration for the farm setting in the Midwest.