Spielberg's Stargate?
Jun. 22nd, 2006 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrystallineSpielberg to defy gravity for Paramount
Space chase pic on Par launch pad
I admit, I never liked 2001: A Space Odessey, so comparing this to that is not encouraging for me. On the other hand, the whole "travelling through wormholes, travelling through time" thing has been done. Maybe Stargate isn't scientifically accurate, but it is entertaining, and to be blunt, most of the scientist-co-written stories I've read have been horrible. Unless he's unusually good at storytelling, or Lynda Obst is unusually good at telling celebrated scientists, "That's lousy, cut it out," I don't know that it will be worth watching. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest venture is an untitled sci-fi film that delves into Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields.
Although the project is considered embryonic -- it has no screenplay and would likely take at least three years to make -- Thorne wrote a treatment with the help of producer and science enthusiast Lynda Obst, prompting Spielberg's involvement.
Based on real science, the film would explore the mind-bending territory of black holes and gravity waves and touch on some of the hypotheses that Albert Einstein chased but never could prove. Thorne, a longtime friend of Obst's, is one of the world's leading experts on relativity.
It is unclear how Thorne's scientific theories will evolve into a film-ready narrative, but the concept has been described as in the vein of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Space chase pic on Par launch pad
Paramount Pictures and Steven Spielberg will develop a space travel story about a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension.
Project, in a nascent stage, is anchored in real science. It was derived from a treatment by Kip S. Thorne, a Caltech physicist who's an expert on relativity. Thorne is most famous for his controversial theory that wormholes not only exist but can be accessed and used as portals for time travel.
I admit, I never liked 2001: A Space Odessey, so comparing this to that is not encouraging for me. On the other hand, the whole "travelling through wormholes, travelling through time" thing has been done. Maybe Stargate isn't scientifically accurate, but it is entertaining, and to be blunt, most of the scientist-co-written stories I've read have been horrible. Unless he's unusually good at storytelling, or Lynda Obst is unusually good at telling celebrated scientists, "That's lousy, cut it out," I don't know that it will be worth watching. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.