Manchester physicist consults on Sunshine

Filed by: Darren on April 4, 2007 at 20:22
Filed In: Movies

It's not often that I'd expect to find myself linking out to Manchester University's website, but one story popped up in my RSS reader this week and caught my eye:

"A new $45m British-made science fiction film [Sunshine] is being unveiled this week and a physicist from The University of Manchester has played an important role in bringing it to the big screen.

"Dr Brian Cox, who can usually be found investigating how the universe was formed at the Centre for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, has been working with Sunshine scriptwriter and University of Manchester old boy Alex Garland (The Beach) and director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting and 28 Days Later)."

Good article, quite a bit of background info on the movie, not too many spoilers: www.manchester.ac.uk.