Next stop on the biopic express: Stephen Hawking. “The Theory of Everything” is set to be released on November 7. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning documentarian James Marsh (“Man on Wire”) and stars Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane.<\/p>\n
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Naturally, there’s not too much to be gleaned about the quality of the overall film from the trailer, but one thing is certain: Redmayne has got Stephen Hawking’s person down<\/em>. A relative no-name here in the states, you may remember the young British actor from turns in Les Miserables<\/em>, The Good Shepherd<\/em>, and My Week with Marilyn<\/em>.<\/p>\n If the film reaches its potential, it could mean Redmayne is joining his director as an Oscar winner. The role contains two criteria that Academy voters eat up: a drastic physical transformation and the portrayal of a real person. Last year alone, seven actors and two actresses were nominated for playing real people, or characters based strongly on real people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next stop on the biopic express: Stephen Hawking. “The Theory of Everything” is set to be released on November 7. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning documentarian James Marsh (“Man on Wire”) and stars Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane. [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OUpl0HDGq1Q[\/youtube] Naturally, there’s not too much to be gleaned<\/p>\n