{"id":149933,"date":"2022-11-11T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/our-universe-trailer-morgan-freeman-narrates-the-history-of-everything"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:22:37","slug":"our-universe-trailer-morgan-freeman-narrates-the-history-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/our-universe-trailer-morgan-freeman-narrates-the-history-of-everything","title":{"rendered":"Our Universe Trailer: Morgan Freeman Narrates The History Of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q33TkQKlIMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you need someone to narrate the history of the universe \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/636257\/history-of-the-world-part-ii-is-actually-getting-made-and-mel-brooks-is-coming-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Brooks is busy<\/a> \u2014 you might as well go with Morgan Freeman. Not only has Freeman played God in \u201cBruce Almighty\u201d and \u201cEvan Almighty,\u201d but he\u2019s also told \u201cThe Story of God\u201d and \u201cThe Story of Us\u201d for National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cOur Universe,\u201d Freeman is lending his voice to a new six-part nature documentary series for Netflix. As the title implies, this series is even bigger in scope than \u201cThe Story of Us.\u201d It\u2019s looking back at the whole history of the universe and how 13.8 billion years have led us to this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman also narrated the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cMarch of the Penguins,\u201d and while I\u2019m not a wildlife expert, I think you might spot some brown penguins in the \u201cOur Universe\u201d trailer. For anyone who enjoyed seeing cosmic events recreated with special effects in Terrence Malick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/546082\/voyage-of-time-trailer-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cVoyage of Time,\u201d<\/a> but wished the movie had been narrated by Detective Somerset instead of Detective Mills (as in, Freeman and Brad Pitt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/647913\/the-daily-stream-seven-is-when-david-fincher-truly-arrived-and-its-influence-endures\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSeven\u201d<\/a> characters), this Netflix series might be right up your alley. Check out the trailer for \u201cOur Universe\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you need someone to narrate the history of the universe \u2014 and Mel Brooks is busy \u2014 you might as well go with Morgan Freeman. Not only has Freeman played God in \u201cBruce Almighty\u201d and \u201cEvan Almighty,\u201d but he\u2019s also told \u201cThe Story of God\u201d and \u201cThe Story of Us\u201d for National Geographic. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}