Hidden Figures is an upcoming 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi from a screenplay co-written with Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features Octavia Spencer, Janelle Mone, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Parsons.
Principal photography began in early March 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The film will be released on January 13, 2017, by Fox 2000 Pictures.