Rachel McAdams, 41, Pregnant Again

Until now I didn't realize that Rachel McAdams's partner produced something called We Are Marshall, about Marshall University. I consider Rachel McAdams to be the foremost personality of science fiction movies just as Marshall Thompson was the premier exemplar of that genre in the 1950s. Here's what I wrote on that subject in another IMDB v2.1 Board.

Science Fiction - Spiritual Heir to Marshall Thompson is???

Actor Marshall Thompson defined science fiction movies of the 1950s. He cast a giant image over that segment of theater and America by such productions as It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), Fiend Without a Face (1958) and First Man Into Space (1959). In the post-Korea/pre-Vietnam era Americans could rely on the USAF and the DEW line to protect against Soviet bombers traveling over the North Pole to attack the 48 states of the union. But there were hazards and men typified by Marshall Thompson could be relied on to handle whatever horrors were discovered.

In Fiend Without a Face (1958) a USAF base in Canada is stricken with invisible beings who suck out the nervous systems of the locals. Actually, they attain visibility in the last segment of the movie and man are they creepy. In First Man Into Space (1959) Marshall Thompson lives up to the title and travels to Outer Space. Trouble is, he's now been changed into a monster. I've never seen It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) but here's a synopsis:
Sadly, Marshall Thompson died in 1992 at the age of 66. He made only three sci-fi classics but it seems he made a hundred, so influential was he.

 

It's a new era and people are no longer concerned with space invaders destroying cities with disintegrator beams. Is there now an actor who represents sci-fi in the public mind as Marshall Thompson once did? Yes, and it's superstar Rachel McAdams.



Rachel doesn't battle Outer Space Aliens. She is best considered the Uncrowned Queen of Time Travel movies since she's made lots of them. Here's a list:

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
About Time (2013)
Doctor Strange (2016)

In all four movies Rachel's characters are women who can't travel in time but have boyfriends who can. Hoorah for Rachel McAdams, the spiritual heir to Marshall Thompson.