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Hidden Figures movie trailer

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We will get to see the film ‘Hidden Figures’ sooner than expected. The movie’s release date has been moved up just in time for next year’s Oscars nominations. Smart move ladies.

Here are some more details on the movie and the characters that will be played.

“Taraji P. Henson portrays Katherine Johnson, a mathematics genius, while Octavia Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monae plays Mary Jackson as a trio of brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind the 1962 launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit — a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race.

Johnson, who worked at NASA from 1952 to 1979, was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom last year. The film is directed by Melfi from a screenplay co-written with Allison Schroeder, based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s upcoming non-fiction book — “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”

Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Melfi are producing along with Pharrell Williams, who is overseeing the soundtrack and writing original songs. Fox screened footage at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, followed by a concert by Williams.” – Variety 

 

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