{"id":75803,"date":"2016-05-21T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2016\/05\/21\/first-pics-to-hidden-figures-with-taraji-p-henson-octavia-spencer-janelle-monae\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:03:24","slug":"first-pics-to-hidden-figures-with-taraji-p-henson-octavia-spencer-janelle-monae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/first-pics-to-hidden-figures-with-taraji-p-henson-octavia-spencer-janelle-monae\/","title":{"rendered":"First Pics To Hidden Figures With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer & Janelle Mon\u00e1e"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Pics To Hidden Figures With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer & Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 21, 2016<\/p>\n

Source: NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Taraji<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> recently ran the first pics to\u00a0the\u00a0Fox 2000 mathematician film \u201cHidden Figures, \u201d which stars Taraji P.\u00a0Henson<\/strong>,\u00a0Octavia Spencer<\/strong>, and singer Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The film\u00a0tells the astonishing true story of female African-American mathematicians who were invaluable to\u00a0NASA<\/a>\u2019s space program in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

Also featured in the film are Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, and Aldis Hodge\u00a0<\/strong>and Glen Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hidden<\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Melfi<\/strong> will direct the film as well as a producer along with Peter Chernin<\/strong> and Jenno Topping<\/strong> through Chernin Entertainment; and Donna Gigliotti<\/strong> of Levantine Films.\u00a0Grammy Award winner Pharrell Williams<\/strong> is also onboard as a producer and music composer.<\/p>\n

Based on Margot Lee Shetterly book \u201cHidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race<\/strong>,\u201d the film will focus on centers on Katherine Johnson (Henson), a brilliant African-American mathematician who, along with her colleagues Mary Jackson (Janelle Mon\u00e1e) and\u00a0Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer), served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history \u2014 the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and his safe return. The three women crossed all gender, race and professional lines while embarking on the mission.<\/p>\n

\"Hidden<\/a><\/p>\n

Desperate to get ahead of the Russians, the nation\u2019s space agency had hired the brainiest people it could find, among them Ms. Johnson, who, in 1937, graduated from college in West Virginia summa cum laude at 18. But, for years at the agency, women often worked in separate rooms from men, and the white women were segregated from the black women, who were known as \u201ccolored computers.\u201d Ms. Johnson\u2019s push to be heard by the men \u2014 her calculations, once they heeded her, proved invaluable \u2014 lies at the film\u2019s narrative core.<\/p>\n

Costner is set to play the head of the space program while Powell plays astronaut John Glenn, who\u00a0was on the Friendship 7 mission in 1962 and became the first American to orbit the Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHidden Figures” is set to hit theaters on January 13, 2017.<\/p>\n

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