Spike Lee's New Biopic on Time Travel Researcher, Ronald Mallett

The Life of Physicist and Leading Researcher of Time Travel, Ronald Mallett, and How Lee's Biopic Will Show How Scientific Passion Can Sometimes Come from Personal Loss

As of this writing, America has already made history having an African-American man winning the nomination for his political party and with good chances of him becoming President, with racism being only a small problem in possibly getting him there. Most people probably haven't even heard of another notable African-American man who could someday become the most extraordinary scientific inventor in human history. While it sounds like a strange mix of science fiction and sociological study on race, how would people feel about an African-American man inventing the world's first time machine? There's more truth to that than you think through a black physicist named Ronald Mallett. His story has inspired director Spike Lee so much that he's about to make a movie about Mallett's life and journey to create an actual time machine.

Some might bristle thinking that Spike Lee will take on another African-American story when he's managed to be looked at as a reactionary recently...especially after his unfortunate tiff with Clint Eastwood. However, Lee may save his reputation with this fascinatingly endearing story that combines the loss of a family member with an inspirational drive to solve one of humankind's greatest mysteries and create a device that can fulfill everyone's wish to either go back to their past or go into the future. When you see the story of Ronald Mallett, it all starts with a simple, heartbreaking tale of a son who, at the age of ten, loses his father to a heart attack as the result of being a chain smoker.