LONDON, Oct 15: Acclaimed British physicist Stephen Hawking will trade in scientific journals for the big screen by starring in a movie, The Sunday Times reported.

The film, “Beyond the Horizon”, aims to explain some of the complicated theories backed by Hawking and his fellow physicists, including the idea that space has up to 11 dimensions and the cause of the big bang.

The 64-year-old Hawking, famous for his 1988 international best-seller “A Brief History of Time”, will also narrate a soundtrack which explains cosmological concepts.

“Beyond the Horizon” centres around a fictional religious affairs correspondent for The Times newspaper who approaches Hawking, interviewing the physicist for a major feature.

Leonard Mlodinow, a former scriptwriter on the television series “Star Trek”, is working with Hawking on the project.

The academic, who is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge — a post once held by Isaac Newton — was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting condition motor neurone disease at the age of 22.—AFP