Rosamund Pike is an Oscar-nominated actress that really is trying to land that next big role. She’s talented, without a doubt, but for some reason, Pike can’t seem to find a role that launches her into the awards season conversation quite like her performance in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl.” Maybe the upcoming “Radioactive” will be that film?
As seen in the trailer for “Radioactive,” Pike plays Marie Curie, the famed scientist that won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry. The film follows the early life of Curie, as she is shown to be a curious mind with few equals, and then as an adult, she finds her partner Pierre Curie, whom she marries and works with.
Joining Pike in the cast are Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard, and Simon Russell Beale. The film comes from writer Jack Thorne and director Marjane Satrapi. The filmmaker is probably best known for her Oscar-nominated work on “Persepolis.” However, she’s also the director behind films such as “Chicken with Plums” and “The Voices.”
“Radioactive” just premiered at this year’s TIFF and is set to be released by Amazon Studios sometime in 2020.
Here’s the synopsis:
Marie Curie is the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in two different fields, physics and chemistry. Though she opened the door to understanding some of the most potent forces in the universe, her century-old story endures in another sense: she was a brilliant woman fighting simply to be heard, to claim her rightful place beside, not behind, her husband. In Radioactive, as played by Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, TIFF ’18’s A Private War), Curie is a woman with an unmatched mind, a clarion voice, and her own eternal fire.
When she lands in Paris from Warsaw at age 24, Maria Sklodowska is passionately curious, but impatient with lesser minds. Meeting the more established Pierre Curie (Sam Riley) could be her salvation, but Maria — now Marie — proves disastrous at flirting and small talk. Yet even as the two argue, they recognize a mutual attraction. Soon Pierre and Marie agree to not just work together, but to marry. As they push their scientific investigation forward, the Curies unlock forces far beyond their control.