Universe Partners - About the Film

About the Film

From the age of the earliest cave dwellers, to the Babylonians and the Greeks, the world’s great temples, art, and literature sought to bring the public closer to the cosmos. It is impossible to date the beginning of humankind’s fascination with the stars and the world beyond them. Now, the world’s most important large-format filmmakers, scientists, and visualization specialists have come together to create Stephen Hawking's Beyond the Horizon.

Using the dynamic large screen format, Stephen Hawking will take the audience on an incomparable scientific journey beyond the horizons of the Universe. Utilizing cutting-edge computer graphic imagery, the experience will reveal aspects of his latest theoretical work dealing with the origin and destiny of the Universe.

The Story

Olivia is a twenty-something reporter in 2005 assigned to the religion beat for the London Times. She is on deadline to write a feature story about cosmology and the meaning of existence on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's proposing the special theory of relativity.

Olivia is scheduled to interview the "rock star" of cosmologists, Stephen Hawking. A skeptic when it comes to scientific facts, she firmly believes science holds no meaning for the Big Questions of life.

The interview with Stephen Hawking leads to more than Olivia bargained for-a whirlwind journey through time and space, where deep space images explode onto the big screen and where the "Big Questions" are answered for Olivia and the audience with ease and whimsy.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Olivia is a 20-something journalist, New Delhi-born, educated and working in England.
Stephen Hawking plays himself, except where cast as a young man. We first meet him in 2005.
Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize, 1921. We meet him in 1933.
Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize, 1965. We meet him in 1968.

For more information about Professor Hawking, please visit www.universepartners.net/about_hawking.html.

Interesting fact: Since 1974, nearly 20 space-related large-format films have been produced. None has attempted, however, to represent the complexity of the cosmos. No other film has been driven by Professor Hawking’s perseverance to popularize complex science. Earlier space-related films have literally prepared the way for Stephen Hawking’s Beyond the Horizon. (For more about large format, please click here).