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  • 5/17/2025
The Life of Chuck Movie Clip - Cosmic Calendar

US Release Date: May 30, 2025
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tom Hiddleston, Annalise Basso, Benjamin Pajak, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Matthew Lillard, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloyan, Harvey Guillén, Jacob Tremblay, Kate Siegel, Mark Hamill
Director : Mike Flanagan
Synopsis: A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
Transcript
00:00I'm teaching the kids Carl Sagan right now.
00:05You ever hear what he said about the cosmic calendar?
00:09I don't know. I don't think so.
00:11Well, the universe is 15 billion years old,
00:15and if you took all of that, all 15 billion years,
00:20and compressed them into a single calendar year,
00:24then the Big Bang happens in the first second, January 1st,
00:28and today, or right now, we're in the final millisecond
00:33of the last minute of the last day, December 31st.
00:37But if you go back to the start,
00:39if the Big Bang happens at midnight January 1st,
00:43and each month of this calendar is one and a quarter billion years long.
00:48Ain't nobody told me there was math on this exam.
00:51The universe starts January 1st,
00:53but the Milky Way didn't form until May.
00:57Our sun and our Earth, they don't show up until mid-September.
01:03Life appears soon after, but not us.
01:06No.
01:07No, we don't appear for guess how long.
01:09Again, I was told there'd be no math.
01:11December 31st.
01:13Last day on the calendar,
01:15and the very first human beings on Earth made their debut
01:19around 10.30 p.m.
01:25.