WHO’S IN IT?
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them), Phoebe Fox (Eye in the Sky), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Vincent Perez (Queen of the Damned), Anne Reid (The Mother), Tom Courtenay (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Tim McInnerny (Peterloo), Rebecca Front (Horrid Henry: The Movie)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Tom Harper (Wild Rose), director, producer; Jack Thorne (Wonder), writer; David Hoberman (The Fighter) and Todd Lieberman (Warm Bodies), producers; Steven Price (Gravity), composer; George Steel (Gozo), cinematographer; Mark Eckersley (War Book), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In 1862, scientist James Glaisher (Redmayne) calls upon the assistance of gas balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Jones) for a voyage up into the clouds to measure the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at its highest levels…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
The Theory of Everything co-stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are back together for a new real-life story – albeit with certain facts altered for dramatic license, such as Jones’s character being a fictional amalgamation of several different figures – that takes you to the highest of highs, in a historical adventure like no other.
