| Newmarket Films announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to director Jon Amiel's CREATION, a film which focuses on Charles Darwin and his family as he struggles to finish his legendary book On The Origin of Species, which went on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology. The screenplay for the film, written by John Collee, is based on the biography Annie's Box which was penned by Darwin's great-great grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. CREATION stars real-life couple Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) and Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream, A Beautiful Mind) as Darwin and wife. In CREATION, Amiel (The Singing Detective, Entrapment) and Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) bring to life a psychological love story that gives a unique and intimate perspective on Darwin, his love for his family and his deeply religious wife, and his struggle to find a balance between faith and reason. The film co-stars Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon, Infamous) and Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park, Amistad), and was produced by Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast) at Recorded Picture Company with BBC Films and Ocean Pictures. "We at Newmarket pride ourselves in getting behind important films that help open the door for discussion and conversation, as is the case with CREATION," says Newmarket's Chris Ball. "While Darwin's name has come to symbolize one side of a debate between the scientific and the theological, CREATION depicts the man as the debate in total, with both sides contending, sometimes violently, within him. In that sense, we believe that the film will appeal to people of faith and people of science." |
