Topic: Strange Angel (CBS All Access drama series)
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 44992 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-03-2018 02:18 AM
"Strange Angel," premiering June 14, 2018 on CBS All Access, is based on the life of Jack Parsons, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation.
The 1930s-set drama centers on Parsons (Jack Reynor), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker in Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry.
Along the way, Parsons fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley.
Parsons used Crowley's teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.
The new show is created by Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins) and based on George Pendle's book of the same name. It is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions.
Mark Heyman, David DiGilio, Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker serve as Executive Producers.
mode1charlie Member
Posts: 1223 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
posted 05-03-2018 04:21 PM
Interesting. I just bought the book of the same name.
SpaceAholic Member
Posts: 4695 From: Sierra Vista, Arizona Registered: Nov 1999
Parsons' own religious and scientific pursuits have proven screen worthy. His life has recently been adapted in the CBS All Access series, "Strange Angel," based on the biography "Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons" by George Pendle. Supercluster sat down with Pendle and show creator, producer, and writer Mark Heyman for exclusive interviews about the life of this rocket-scientist-genius-occultist-playboy.
posted 05-03-2018 02:18 AM
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