The Boy Who Played With Fusion Movie Updates

Sat., Aug. 4, 2012

from Deadline

Chernin Company Acquires Popular Science Article About 14-Year-Old Who Achieved Nucle...

Chernin Entertainment has acquired The Boy Who Played With Fusion, the true story of Taylor Wilson, a 14-year-old Arkansan who became the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion.

• changed the production status to Development
• added a synopsis

• Taylor Wilson, an exceptionally smart and curious kid, is given the room and encouragement by his "ordinary" parents to nurture his great gifts and passion for nuclear science and experimentation. When his grandmother becomes ill, the 14-year old bec... show all omes involved in an attempt to harness the short-lived isotopes that kill cancer cells and then deteriorate before they harm healthy cells, in hopes that the cancer curing isotopes could be generated on site at hospitals and save lives. Taylor later harnesses his discoveries as an alarm system to root out dirty bombs in shipping containers. He becomes the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion.

• added Chernin Entertainment as a production company
• added biography as genre
• added Jeff Nichols to the credits
• added Jenno Topping to the credits
• added Peter Chernin to the credits
• created the movie profile