AFM: 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' First Look (Exclusive)
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The Hollywood Reporter
By Scott Roxborough
November 6, 2014 10:00 AM
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Sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has unveiled the first image of Matt Brown's period drama The Man Who Knew Infinity, featuring Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel as self-taught math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons as his British mentor G.H. Hardy.
Brown, who also wrote the screenplay, based his film on the biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. The film's ensemble cast also includes Stephen Fry, Toby Jones and Jeremy Northam.
The project, mounted by the Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation and Animus Films production in association with Xeitgeist and Marcys Holdings, was shot on location in India and at Cambridge University, and was the first-ever film to shoot at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Ramanujan and Hardy worked after the British professor plucked Ramanujan from obscurity to work on some of the most complex problems of advanced mathematics. Pressman and Animus' Jim Young is producing along with Sofia Sondervan of Dutch Tilt Film, Pressman's COO, Jon Katz, and Xeitgeist's Joe Thomas.
The project, which Mister Smith is pitching to international buyers at AFM, comes at a time when period dramas about brainy Brits are in fashion — think: Benedict Cumberbatch as computer pioneer Alan Turing in The Imitation Game or Eddie Redmayne as physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Written and Directed by Matt Brown
Starring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, introducing Devika Bhise
Produced by Edward R. Pressman, Joe Thomas, Jim Young,
Sofia Sondervan
Colonial India, 1913. Srinavasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius, who failed out of college due to his near-obsessive, solitary study of mathematics. Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Cambridge University. Hardy recognizes the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan’s raw talent and despite the skepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored.
Ramanujan leaves his family, his community, and his beloved young bride (Devika Bhise) to travel across the world to England. There, he finds understanding and a deep connection with his sophisticated and eccentric mentor. Under Hardy’s guidance, Ramanujan’s work evolves in ways that will revolutionize mathematics and transform how scientists explain the world. Hardy fights tirelessly to get Ramanujan the recognition and respect that he deserves but in reality he is as much an outcast in the traditional culture of Cambridge as he was among his peers in India. But Ramanujan fights illness and intense homesickness to formally prove his theorems, so that his work will finally be seen and believed by a mathematical establishment that is not prepared for his unconventional methods.
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is the improbable true story of a unique genius whose pivotal theories propelled him from obscurity into a world in the midst of war, and how he fought tirelessly to show the world the magic of his mind.
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