
Newcomer Johnny Flynn will play the younger version. Premiering on April 24th on National Geographic. The cable network has tapped Geoffrey Rush to star as Albert Einstein in its anthology drama Genius, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Starring Geoffrey Rush, it tells the untold story of Albert Einstein. To learn more about Albert Einstein, check out the trailer for Genius below. Genius: Albert Einstein, which stars Geoffrey Rush as the older Einstein and rising British star Johnny Flynn as the younger man, draws on Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed 2007 biography, Einstein.
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The smart people at Snopes - who live to debunk the stupid things idiots write online - haven’t been able to find any correct attribution of the quote to indicate that it actually came from Einstein. : Genius Season 1: Einstein : Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Emily Watson: Movies & TV Movies & TV Studio Specials 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment All Fox Titles STREAM ANYTIME with Prime Video from 14. The world will have a generation of idiots.Įxcept, that quote isn’t from Einstein.
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I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The new role is for National Geographic’s new film series Genius, which stars Geoffrey Rush as the iconic physicist and was produced by Gigi Pritzer, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. It’s easy to attribute smart-sounding quotes to intelligent people from history. Now Rush, 65, plays Albert Einstein in the TV miniseries Genius, which began airing April 25 at 9 p.m.

Keep this one in your back pocket at parties! It turns out that the letter itself is a sophisticated forgery: it’s written in English and not German it features an image of a modern stamp bearing the image of Einstein, and the names and addresses are incorrect. One of the world’s loftiest performers, Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor Geoffrey Rush is back in the fold at the TV Academy’s 2017 soirée for his portrayal of Albert Einstein in. It read that Einstein was being denied an application for his Doctorate by the University on the grounds that his theories were ‘somewhat radical’. The 10-episode drama, Nat Geo’s first scripted series, will serve as a portrait of the genius as a young man, focusing on the contrast between Einstein’s brilliance and his inability to attain.
