Why hasn’t anyone mentioned that staggering work of cinematic genius, Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious? Come on, people!
Holodeck simulations of Einstein appeared on ST:TNG twice: Albert Einstein | Memory Alpha | Fandom
I’m listed as a source in that. And, though I may be biased, but I think the story of Einstein and my grandfather could be an interesting movie.
Very sweet family story.
Very cool. My parents lived in Princeton in the mid-Fifties and my mom would see Einstein riding his bike around town now and then. I asked her if she ever spoke to him, and she said, “No, I didn’t want to bother him.”
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If they make one soon, they should cast Gene Wilder. I think he would be perfect for the role.
More significantly, there’s no opportunity to put sex, violence, profanity, or toilet humor into the Einstein movie, hence it won’t ever be made, at least not by a major American studio.
Yes, forget about a film. Read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein. It’s not a boring life at all. The book covers a lot more than was ever put on film about Einstein.
If only American studios would make movies like The Help, Jumping the Broom, Soul Surfer, Monte Carlo, Larry Crowne, Beastly, The Adjustment Bureau, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, The Art of Getting By, The Chaperone, Super 8, Another Year, Blue Crush 2, Love, Wedding, Marriage, The Tree of Life, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
To keep the theme going, David Tennant appeared in the BBC production, ‘Einstein and Eddington’ a couple of years ago.
That’s worth digging out if you haven’t seen it.
That, and the Einstein–Szilárd letter. I think you could really get some great scenes out of the moral struggle over whether or not to urge the President to create a weapon of heretofore unimaginable power.
The guy would be cool as a character, too. I predict a serious Oscar-bait movie in the next ten years, maybe starring Gary Oldman or Johnny Depp.
I recognize those words, but they make no sense the way you put them together.
This is the photo I saw that made me suggest Gene Wilder for the role. All you have to do is put a mustache on him.
Einstein and Eddington, a really wonderful TV movie from the UK starring Andy Serkis as Einstein & David Tennant as Arthur Eddington, a British scientist who proved Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
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Incidentally, the film Insignificance features a character who is obviously meant to be Einstein. It’s about a strange night in the mod-50’s where his life intersects with three people who are standing in for Joe DiMaggio, Joe MacCarthy and Marilyn Monroe.
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I saw that long ago and while it’s not one of my favorites it had it’s moments. It includes the professor’s flashbacks to anti Semitism in pre-Nazi Germany. (The characters based on but not called) Einstein and Monroe are the best at seeming like their counterparts; Gary Busey’s ballplayer is too redneck to be at all believable as Dimaggio and a 1970s Dom Deluise would have looked and sounded more like McCarthy.
There was a novel about Einstein’s (real life) long lost daughter that had movie buzz a couple of years ago but nothing on imdb. (Einstein and his first wife/co-researcher Mileva Maric had a daughter out of wedlock before they married and her fate is uncertain; it’s generally believed she was privately adopted by members of their family and died young but this is not for certain, and IIRC her brothers didn’t even learn of her existence until after their parents died.)