10:28 PM EST 12/22/2014
The upcoming Stephen Hawking biopic film The Theory of Everything stars Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables) as Hawking and Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) as Hawking's wife Jane Wilde. Their chemistry is evident on-screen and they have released an extended featurette showing more about the couple off-screen.
"The physicality wasn't even a question," Eddie says in the clip. "Felicity and I could just play for real."
"We both had this intellectual curiosity and instantly there was a connection," Felicity adds.
The film follows the scientist through university, courtship and the trials of motor neuron disease and focuses on Hawking's relationship with Jane Wilde (Felicity), the art student he fell in love with while studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. They will show Hawking and Jane's first encounter at Cambridge University in 1964 and his early academic successes, culminating in a doctorate after he advanced theories about spacetime singularities at the centre of black holes. He is diagnosed with motor neuron disease and told he may have just two years to live.
The trailer shows when the physicist became desperately ill with pneumonia in 1985 and was given a tracheotomy by doctors to save his life. It shows him hearing his now-famous synthesized voice for the first time and the dramatic moment lightened when Jane expresses alarm that the computer program features an American accent.
The Theory of Everything movie is based on Jane Hawking's book. The script was written by Anthony McCarten and produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Lisa Bruce. The movie was Directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire, Shadow Dancer).
The movie will be shown in the special presentations section at the upcoming Toronto international film festival. The Theory of Everything is scheduled to release to theaters in the US on November 7th and arrives in the UK on January 2nd, 2015.
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