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Spike Lee takes on 'Time Traveler'
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Spike Lee will co-write and direct "Time Traveler," a feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation's first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics.
Lee acquired "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality" with his own money and has set up the project through his Forty Acres & A Mule Filmworks banner.
Mallett, who wrote the book with Bruce Henderson, recounts his rise from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career, and it lays out the technical specs for what Mallett envisions as a workable time machine. Developing a time machine became an obsession for Mallett from the age of 10 after his father's death. His goal was to travel back in time to save his father.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987632.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
I've heard Mallet on a documentary once about time travel. Time travel is such a fascinating study of what if. If by some chance a scientists ever did create a workable time machine he better keep it a secret because the government would be sure to shut him down in a hurry. Just think of the implications. What if reality as we know it shifted continuously every time somebody went back through time and changed something. The worst part is we'd never know it. One day you could be married to a beautiful woman living in a mansion and the next day living in a soviet occupied country in a one room shack, and you'd never be the wiser. If a time travel machine were invented it would automatically have to be controlled and it's use prohibited. But of course on a individual basis, I'd love to travel back through time. I'd just hate anybody else doing it and screwing up the universe.
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