#GEOFFREY RUSH ALBERT EINSTEIN SERIES#

The Philadelphia Experiment This one is by far the most fanciful, but also the most fascinating.

#GEOFFREY RUSH ALBERT EINSTEIN SERIES#

Certainly, the source material of Walter Isaacson’s 2007 book Einstein: His Life And Universe contains much the show could have further unlocked or explored – and I don’t merely mean theoretically. Genius, a 10-part drama series starring Geoffrey Rush, reveals the untold story of Albert Einstein from Monday April 24 on National Geographic. Despite the well-honed presence of Oscar and Emmy winner Rush as the marquee attraction and, in his small-screen scripted premiere, Howard directing the opening episode, Genius reveals just a fraction of its subject and relatively little of the science he pioneered. Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein in the National Geographic's 'Genius' 62 years after his death, Albert Einstein remains the most famous scientist on the planet. 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. However, now matter how you do the numbers, it is ultimately unsurprising and lacking a certain shine.

'I've seen that in some of the newsreel footage. Īs I say in my review above, though, even when Genius gets a little Doctor Who jumping around in time, it remains solid and watchable. Geoffrey Rush Talks Showing Albert Einstein’s Lighter Side in ‘Genius’ 'He had a fantastic sense of humor,' the Emmy-nominated star tells THR. With it also pulling double duty as Nat Geo’s first foray into scripted dramatic television, it could be a case of opening jitters for the already renewed series. Starring Geoffrey Rush as the older version of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Johnny Flynn as the younger and somewhat swashbuckling Einstein, the 10-episode first installment executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer is at its core deceivingly conventional. On the series, which is produced by Howard and Brian Grazer ’s Imagine Entertainment, Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush plays the older Einstein who is on the Nazi’s hit list, and escapes to the. 51m IMDb RATING 8. Genius, the new anthology series that looks at the life of Albert Einstein and debuts tonight on National Geographic, is better than most but not brilliant.

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