Nicole Perlman's Love for Science Helped Land Her GOTG Writing Gig

Tonight at midnight the first film with Nicole Perlman credited as a writer will hit theaters and by all accounts it will be a huge success. So suffice to say Perlman's stock is on the rise in Hollywood. However, with this new success Perlman tells wired.com that what she really hopes to do is revisit one of her early obsessions, Physicist Richard Feynman.



“He was my childhood crush object,” Perlman told wired. “I had printed out pictures of Feynman from the Caltech website when I was in high school. When my friends had pictures of Keanu Reeves on their wall, I had pictures of a dead physicist.”

Perlman was captivated by Feynman's biography and the way he could translate science into common language, something she admired as a writer. “I loved the way that he could explain these incredible mysteries about the universe; there was something about the way in which he made it seem like you could explain this to anybody in the world, you just needed the right communicator,” she said. “That was what seemed miraculous about it. These amazing, lofty ideas, weren’t walled off from not-particularly-brilliant high school students like myself. It was inspiring.”

According to wired.com, in college, Perlman’s first screenplay, Challenger, was about Feynman’s time investigating the Challenger disaster. She continued to write screenplays about real-life scientists and scientific exploration. This led her to taking part in Marvel's writers program where she penned the original Guardians script.



Now that that film has received over whelming critical praise and looks to be one of the biggest August openers ever, Perlman says her Challenger script has just been re-options, which she says "is kind of amazing considering the number of times it’s been set up. It’s been this thing that keeps coming back to life, and hopefully this’ll be the time it actually gets made. We’ll see what happens.”



For more about her love for science, growing up surrounded by "rocket scientists" and what she plans to do in the future head over the wired.com.

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits–Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand - with the galaxy’s fate in the balance. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is presented by Marvel Studios and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gilian, Djimon Hounsou with John C. Reilly, Glenn Close as Commander Rael and Benicio del Toro as The Collector. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film opens August 1, 2014

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