Dev Patel is one of the most exciting young British actors around and he is set to return this spring with new film The Man Who Knew Infinity.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on a true story and sees Patel take on the role of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a man who grew up in India who earns a place at Cambridge University where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories.
And it is Patel who takes centre stage in the brand new poster for the film, which also features Jeremy Irons.
Irons takes on the role of Ramanujan's professor and friend G.H. Hardy in the film. The duo is joined on the cast list by Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, and Kevin McNally.
The Man Who Knew Infinity sees Matt Brown back in the director's chair for the second feature of his career. The movie comes six years since he made his debut with Ropewalk back in 2000.
As well as being in the director's chair, Brown has also adapted Robert Kanigel's biography into a screenplay.
Colonial India, 1913. Srinavasa Ramanujan (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 (Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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. 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.
The Man Who Knew Infinity is released 8th April.
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