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Lee To Tackle Time Travel

June 18, 2008 by Sam Sloan   || Category: From Page To Screen

Award winning director Spike Lee, using his own money and resources has acquire the rights to film “Time Traveler,” based on the prize winning book “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality,” the memoirs of renowned theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett.

This one isn’t sci-fi, but is sci-fact. The film will chronicle Mallett, one of America’s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics, as he draws up the technical specs for a workable time machine.

Mallett co-wrote his best selling book with writer Bruce Henderson. He admits to being completely obssessed with the whole concept of time travel since age 10, after his father’s death. As a boy his desire was to be able to go back in time to save his dad, however, as an adult he began to believe that time travel was more than a fantasy told in science fiction tales, but based on quantum physics, might actually one day become a reality.

Lee will begin work on the film as soon as possible.

[Pictured from lt to rt: Dr. Ronald Mallett; Director Spike Lee]

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4 Responses to “Lee To Tackle Time Travel”

  1. Michael on June 19th, 2008 2:43 pm

    Here we have Spike Lee calling Clint Eastwood a racist for not having any African-American actors in his two WWII movies yet it seems all of Spike Lee’s movie are exclusively about African-American’s. There’s the pot calling the kettle black.

  2. Arkle on June 19th, 2008 11:02 pm

    Um, did you ever see Summer of Sam?

  3. Deven Science on June 20th, 2008 5:07 pm

    Or Inside Man? I have little faith in Lee, as I’ve not enjoyed many of his movies, but Inside Man showed me that he can tell a story.

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