Disney Opens The Feynman Chronicles An action-adventure spec script Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Because Indiana Jones has been away from our screens for so long, it’s only natural that young upstarts would try and take his place.
The latest in a long line of adventurers who think they’ve got what it takes the carry the bullwhip is Richard Feynman, a brilliant young physicist recruited by the US government to track down a mysterious object that falls from the sky and crashes into a remote mountain in 1940s Africa. He gets a little help from a sexy British lady spy and a cranky French pilot. But he’ll have to be swift – those dashed Nazis are after the object too…
That’s the concept for The Feynman Chronicles, a spec script by Ashley E Miller and Zack Stentz. The writing duo previously penned Agent Cody Banks 2 and worked on TV sci fi show Andromeda, which is not something anyone should really shout about. Still, Disney has snapped up their scribblings and will soon start looking for a director and cast.
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Hold Andromeda against us all you like, but we co-wrote the first Agent Cody Banks and had nothing to do with the sequel. And to answer Popa, there already has been an Albert Einstein comedy: I.Q. Fictional adventures of real historical people is a fairly longstanding subgenre in film and prose. And come on, people: Richard Feynman, fightin' nazis! As Samuel L. Jackson said about his next film: "Either you want to see that, or you don't." ... Read More
Wait a minute. Richard Feynman, the renown Caltech physicist, was a contemporary real person. Does this mean that Ashley E Miller and Zack Stentz have permission from the Feynman estate to trivialize this great man with stories about UFOs and Nazis? This story sounds very unlikely. What's next, an Albert Einstein sex comedy? ... Read More
In the right hands this could easily be Disney's new family adventure franchise. On the other hand it could just turn into a wek clone of Indy. Time will tell. ... Read More
