Leslie Odom Jr. and John Ridley on Needle in a Timestack and Cynthia Erivo
With Needle in a Timestack now playing in select theaters and available On Demand and Digital and arriving on Bluray next week, I recently spoke with writerdirector John Ridley and Leslie Odom Jr. about making their romantic, scifi drama. The film is based on the short story by Robert Silverberg and the film asks what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate. What you need to know is Needle in a Timestack takes place in the near future when time travel is something the rich can leisurely do on a casual afternoon. While there are rules in place to prevent you from altering the timeline, it happens, and when they do a ripple runs through time which everyone can see like a wave in the ocean. Sometimes its a minor change, like you now have a cat when you had a dog, but sometimes a ripple can completely change everything about your life. And these ripples happen without warning. Anyway, the film follows a couple (Oscar nominees Leslie Odom Jr. and Cynthia Erivo) who are happily married. However, in
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