Spielberg enters space race

The 'War of the Worlds' helmer is set to make a sci-fi epic about black holes and gravity fields.

Jun 15 2006

I realise that today, of all days, TOMB readers will be reading, thinking and talking about football and how many we might put past Trinidad and Tobago this afternoon, but an announcement from Steven Spielberg is always likely to draw the attention, and today he's made a big one.

For the bearded wonder has announced plans to make a sci-fi flick about a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole in space and enter another dimension.

The film will be anchored in real science, and based on the work of Kip S Thorne, a Caltech physicist who's an expert on relativity.

According to Variety, Thorne is most famous for his controversial theory that wormholes not only exist, but can be accessed and used as portals for time travel.

Don't hold your breath for the currently untitled pic however, as it is several years from going into production, meaning that the world's most successful director has time to make both 'Indiana Jones 4' and his proposed Abraham Lincoln biopic before heading into the great beyond.

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