‘Hidden Figures’, the movie which tells the groundbreaking tale of the African-American women behind NASA’s Space Race glory, has welcomed Pharrell Williams to its family.
Fantastic news below…
Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae and Taraji P. Henson fill its leading roles as Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Katherine Jackson and will watch the project hit movie theatres on January 13th 2017.
Joining them along for the factual ride is Pharrell Williams.
The producer has signed up to create original music for the movie alongside the composer Hans Zimmer whose sounds can be found in the movies ‘Gladiator’, ‘Inception’ and ‘Interstellar.’
Williams will also serve as one of the project’s producers.
There’s more.
Following his undeniably game-changing performance in the Whitney Houston-fronted ‘The Bodyguard’, Kevin Costner joins ‘Figures’ to portray Al Harrison, the head of the space program.
IMDB offers its official synopsis:
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
Click here to catch the movie’s epic trailer!