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The Aeronauts is a 2019 biographical adventure film directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne, from a story co-written by Thorne and Harper. The film is based on the 2013 book Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes. [8]
Dec 9, 2019 · While Eddie Redmayne's James Glaisher was a real person, Felicity Jones' Amelia Wren is a work of fiction based on several women in the aeronautical world.
Aug 3, 2022 · The movie has Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reuniting as co-stars after their critically acclaimed work in ‘The Theory of Everything.’ Redmayne plays James Glaisher, the determined scientist, while Jones plays the brave (but fictional) widow aeronaut Amelia Wren.
The Aeronauts: Directed by Tom Harper. With Felicity Jones, Vincent Perez, Phoebe Fox, Lewin Lloyd. A balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.
- (38K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Tom Harper
- 2019-12-20
Dec 23, 2019 · In The Aeronauts, James Glaisher is depicted as perhaps the first meteorologist. Presenting his theories to a slate of fellow scientists, he pleads for funding, convinced that balloon expeditions could help discover how to predict the weather.
Dec 6, 2019 · The dream of traveling skyward became a reality in 1783, when two French brothers, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, launched the first piloted hot-air balloon.
Sep 4, 2024 · Bill Costen, the first African-American commercial hot-air balloon pilot in the United States, receives a lifetime achievement award from the Balloon Federation of America. The former American Footballer began his ballooning career more than 40 years previously, in 1975.
