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Balmain calling

Planning a film by Zoom

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

Earlier this year, I was in London in the (very) early stages of pre-production of a brilliant script by David Williamson, Nearer the Gods – a fascinating and surprisingly witty account of the insane difficulties encountered by Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley as they attempt to persuade the Royal Society to publish Newton’s Principia Mathematica – his revolutionary work which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.

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