Spike Lee In A Jam Over Film Based On Ronald L. Mallett

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - Feb. 3, 2016 - PRLog -- When Spike Lee purchased the rights to the groundbreaking book, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality, it made news all over the world. "...a feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation’s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics", ComingSoon.net reported in a story titled, Spike Lee Helming Time Traveler .

Despite all the hype, much like Mallett himself, Spike has nothing to show for it. Originally reported by Michael Fleming in Variety (see http://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/spike-lee-takes-on-time-traveler-1117987632 ), based on a press release from Mallett's literary agent, Paul Bresnick, Fleming described Time Traveler as a book that "recounts his rise from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career, and it lays out the technical specs for what Mallett envisions as a workable time machine. Developing a time machine became an obsession for Mallett from the age of 10 after his father’s death. His goal was to travel back in time to save his father".

According to Fleming, Spike "has been intrigued by the subject and flirted with the Fox drama “Selling Time,” about a man who sells a part of his life expectancy for the chance to go back and relive the worst day of his life".

However, absolutely nothing has comes from this project as of late. Reportedly, Spike is trying to shop the project to various studios for a number of years yet  there have been no takers so far. In fact, Spike doesn't even list the project, or Mallett on his web site anymore (see 40acres.com)

"I think Spike was conned just like I was, by Mallett's phony story of having a solution for a time machine", Marshall Barnes says, the research and development engineer who used to be a supporter of Mallett's, prior to 2012 when they became competitors, in a race to build a time machine that would work for particles. Marshall won that race a year later (see https://www.prlog.org/12247224-marshall-barnes-wins-the-r... ) but Mallett has continued to promote himself as being on the cutting edge of time travel physics, a claim that Marshall vehemently objects to.

"If Mallett is on the cutting edge of time travel research then I'm a time travel god. Has Mallett ever written a paper on time travel physics? No. I've written an entire book that resolves all the major issues with time travel. Has Mallett accurately designed a time machine? No. His idea has flaws in it six ways to Sunday and he had to admit to PBS NewsHour that to make it effect time he'll need power on the level of 'stellar quantities'. That alone invalidates all the accolades that he got for finding a solution from General Relativity that would work on a small scale and it's worse than that - it means he wasn't smart enough to figure that out back in 2000 when he started claiming otherwise. It means that I was right last October when I claimed in my paper about the total failure of his design, that he also didn't have the required intellect to even design an accurate time machine."

Marshall is preparing a book that he says will destroy what is now being called the "Mallett Myth", as well as a documentary about what became the race to create the first time machine. He also has another project which he describes as a "preemptive legal strike", all of which is set to transpire over the next six months, probably before Spike can get a studio for the Mallett project and certainly before he could start production. Which brings the probability of Spike getting a studio to green light a movie on Mallett to near zero. Then again, there's the perception of Spike Lee himself.

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"I think it would be pretty difficult to do a movie about Mallett as some kind of hero, at least as far as what made him famous, which is his connection to the time machine subject, when nearly 100% of that story is totally false and is proven so prior to the movie being made. That alone would make Spike give that project up", Marshall concluded. "Hey, Father Pfleger was on the Steve Harvey and said, '...a man like Spike Lee, with his body of work - 'cause you said earlier (referring to Harvey), telling truth, raising consciousness and helping us look at things right, face on...' That would mean making a film about Mallett, that depicts him the way the media has, in the wake of the truth I'll be revealing, would make a hypocrite out of Spike, and I don't think Spike would do it, despite the financial loss it might cost".