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The Aeronauts follows the adventures of James Glaisher , a scientist, and Amelia Wren, a flamboyant aeronaut who lost her husband in a balloon accident. The pair, fighting against thunderstorms, wind, hailstones and rain as they ascend higher and higher, achieve something phenomenal: they travel to heights no man or woman has ever reached before. In order to convey that sense of wonder, Harper and co-writer Jack Throne drew on several real figures from history, and also took some creative license with their stories.

The movie will be available to stream on Amazon Prime Video beginning on Dec. In The Aeronauts , meteorologist James Glaisher Redmayne presents his theories of how a gas balloon expedition could be key to predicting the weather—a science still in its infancy in the s—and asks for funding for the expedition.

He eventually convinces Amelia Wren Jones to pilot the balloon he needs to take him on his expedition. In real life, Glaisher was indeed an influential scientist—he made 28 ascents between and , recording observations that were crucial to our understanding of weather. Among his discoveries were the fact that wind changes speed at different altitudes, and the way raindrops form and gather moisture.

The kinds of scientific measurements he performed using thermometers, barometers and hygrometers are now made in unmanned meteorological balloons. Glaisher did in fact exist, and he did break the record for traveling higher than any person, but he did so with fellow scientist Henry Tracy Coxwell rather than the fictional character of Amelia Wren. Take Off. So It Begins. Photos Top cast Edit. Phoebe Fox Antonia as Antonia. Lewin Lloyd Charlie as Charlie.

Tim McInnerny Airy as Airy. Lisa Jackson Poppy as Poppy. Bella Posey the Dog as Posey the Dog. James Daniel Wilson Meteorologist as Meteorologist voice. Tom Harper. Inside the Movie Magic of 'The Aeronauts' We fly behind the scenes of The Aeronauts to find out how director Tom Harper and his team brought the incredibly detailed world to life.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In , pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher Eddie Redmayne teams up with daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Rennes Felicity Jones to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history.

While their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world, they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival. Inspired by a True Adventure. Action Adventure Drama Romance. Rated PG for some peril and thematic elements.

Did you know Edit. Trivia James Glaisher was a real English meteorologist who is remembered for his pioneering work as a balloonist. Between and he made numerous ascents to measure the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at its highest levels. With his co-pilot aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell, they broke the world record for altitude on September 5, Coxwell is omitted from the film, and replaced with the fictional Amelia Wren.

The Wren character draws some inspiration from various real women most significantly Sophie Blanchard, a French aeronaut who was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist between and her death in Goofs Several characters address Amelia as Miss Wren which is her maiden name.

No gentleman would do this especially in Victorian times. Amelia is a widow and should therefore be addressed by her late husband's name as Mrs. Coxwell was an important balloonist as well. Unlike Wren, he didn't do backflips or shoot off fireworks. He did take a scientific flight with Glaisher and ascend to unprecedented heights of 37, feet , a record at the time for manned flight.

There's even a photograph of the Glaisher and Coxwell sitting in their balloon in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. It does what the movie doesn't, commemorating and honoring the two men who made history that day.

Sadly, The Aeronauts blows Coxwell away in a gust of wind and overthrows everything he did to make history. As opposed to a brave Amelia Wren, it was a brave Coxwell who saved Glaisher's life that day, even if the reality wasn't quite as dramatic. In order to add a female main character and a hint of romance, the real Coxwell is missing. In his stead, is the fake but winsome Amelia Wren. While the writers call this artistic license, it's akin to showing the Wright sisters instead of the Wright brothers.

There were female balloonists even in the s. According to Smithsonian , one of them was Sophie Blanchard. Blanchard was a small woman with sharp features who was afraid of even carriage rides. But when her husband, balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard took her up in a balloon, she was smitten. No, not by her middle-aged husband who took her as his second wife, but by ballooning.

From then on, she reveled in ballooning, even flying solo at times. Blanchard seemed uncaring of the danger. In those days, balloons flew on hydrogen gas. Since hydrogen is lighter than air, the balloons would rise. But Blanchard and her husband would sometimes light fireworks around the balloon, even though she knew the hydrogen could catch fire. This would, in fact, eventually be the cause of her death. Fear didn't seem to be part of her character. It's a notable difference from the debilitating flashbacks Amelia Wren keeps having in The Aeronauts.

In the movie, Amelia Wren and her balloonist husband Pierre Rennes are on a balloon when things go wrong. The balloon is descending too fast and the couple tries to save themselves. They throw all that they can out of the balloon to make it lighter. When Pierre sees nothing is working, he heroically jumps off the balloon and falls to his death, sacrificing himself to save his wife. The woman Amelia Wren takes inspiration from, Sophie Blanchard, was half of a real-life balloonist couple. And according to the Encyclopedia Britannica , her husband, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, did die due to a fall from the balloon , just not so heroically.

Jean-Pierre suffered a heart attack mid-air as he stood near the edge of the basket. Floundering, he toppled off the balloon and eventually died from his injuries. Nothing of this saved or helped his wife, Sophie. Instead, it left her with a mountain of debts that she repaid with her ballooning jaunts and aerial displays.

Jean-Pierre Blanchard was also no hero, unlike Pierre Rennes. Smithsonian says he falsely claimed to be the inventor of balloons and parachutes. He abandoned his first wife and four children. He then married Sophie, a woman much younger than him.

He established an academy, which tanked. In massive debt, he persuaded his wife to fly with him to draw bigger crowds, but he still left her in major financial trouble when he died. In The Aeronauts , Amelia Wren survives numerous ballooning disasters. In the first incident, it's her husband who dies. Later, she is ready to sacrifice herself to save James Glaisher. As the balloonist, she believes it to be her responsibility as a pilot.

Plus she refuses to be responsible for another person's death. With her husband dying still a sore point for her, Wren is okay making the ultimate sacrifice. She survives in the end, but real-life balloonist Sophie Blanchard wasn't so lucky.

Despite having made a good life for herself after her husband's death, Sophie Blanchard's last flight was when she was According to Smithsonian Magazine , she said, "Allons, ce sera pour la derniere fois. The balloon caught fire and the fast descent caused the basket to crash into a building. Blanchard tipped out and fell onto the street below. She was dead by the time anyone reached her. This was , and James Glaisher was only born in So he was ten when Blanchard died and they likely never met.

The romance is complete fiction, in more ways than one. The derisive treatment Eddie Redmayne's Glaisher meets with at the scientific "boys' club" in the film is all fantasy. According to Smithsonian , Glaisher was, in fact, an established scientist of his time. Soon after, he was appointed to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where he became the first Superintendent of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department.

In , long before his historical balloon flight, Glaisher became a Fellow of the Royal Society , aged just He wrote more than papers about meteorology in the United Kingdom and took some 28 balloon flights in total. Plus Glaisher was key in founding the Royal Meteorological Society in He was also a council member of the Royal Aeronautical society from its founding in until his death in