TV
Strange Angel (CBSAA 2018, Jack Reynor, Rupert Friend,
Strange Angel, a drama series created by Mark Heyman (“Black Swan,” “The Skeleton Twins”) and based on George Pendle’s book of the same name, is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons and explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.
Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles, 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, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, ultimately becoming a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley’s teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.
production details
USA / CBSAA / 10×50 minutes / 2018
Creator: Mark Heyman,
cast
Jack Reynor as Jack Parsons
Rupert Friend as Ernest Donovan
Bella Heathcote as Susan Parsons
Peter Mark Kendall as Richard Onstead
Michael Gaston as Virgil Byrne
Greg Wise as Alfred Miller
Rade Serbedzija as Prof. Filip Mešulam
Zack Pearlman as Samson Hunt
Keye Chen as Gui Chang