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Spielberg returns to sci-fi with black hole film

Thu 15 Jun 3:30 PM

Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg has always had a flare for science-fiction (ET, War Of The Worlds, Close Encounters), which is why everyone's getting so excited that he is to direct a film about black holes.

Even though the film doesn't yet have a name, a script or a cast, the project has the movie world buzzing. The movie will delve into Caltech (California Institute of Technology) physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields. Based on real science, it will 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.

So far there is only a 'treatment' written by Thorne, but that's been enough to get Spielberg and producer Lynda Obst (How To Lose A Guy In 10 days) on board, and the embryonic movie signed to Paramount Pictures.

It's three or fours years in the making but could prove to be the most ground-breaking picture Spielberg has made yet. Watch this space.