By Ryan Parsons | Image property of respective holders, Variety
Spike Lee
Spike Lee seems to be riding a hot streak. After finding success with Inside Man the director recently turned heads with the first trailer for Miracle at St. Anna. But he's not done just yet. Lee has signed on to both write and direct Time Traveler, the feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, an African-American who earned a Ph.D in theoretical physics.
Spike Lee to Direct Time Traveler
Lee was so amped on the project that he acquired Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality with his own money; think of what Vince did in one of the more recent seasons of Entourage.
In the novel, Mallett recounts his rise from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career, and it lays out the technical specs for what Mallett envisions as a workable time machine. Developing a time machine became an obsession for Mallett from the age of 10 after his father's death. His goal was to travel back in time to save his father.
Lee called Time Traveler a "fantastic story on many levels (and) also a father and son saga of loss and love."
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