Savants have begun to invade filmdom: Channing Tatum, Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne portray three distinct roles based on real-life geniuses, whose individual ingenuity made significant marks in people's lives - and even world history at large.
Modern times it seems have started looking up to real-life superheroes possessed with beautiful minds, capable of touching people's lives and changing the world, as we know it. Channing Tatum, Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne have all turned heads with their dramatic, soulful portrayals of these once-shunned personalities.
How did Channing Tatum, Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne pull it off successfully? Read on:
Channing Tatum for "Struck by Genius"
Channing Tatum plays Jason Padgett in the movie. His life turned around drastically following a tragedy. According to Hollywood Reporter, he had once been a party-loving college guy. But after getting badly beaten up outside a karaoke bar, he suffered from a traumatic brain injury that turned him into a math genius overnight.
Benedict Cumberbatch for "The Imitation Game"
Another math genius but this time specializing in codes, Benedict Cumberbatch is Alan Turing. Socially inept just like his little-screen character "Sherlock," Turing broke boundaries, as reported by Metro and IMDB, and saved lives by curtailing the war when he cracked the Enigma code during World War II. From being one of the most celebrated members of the clandestine British code-breaking centre he suddenly became a social outcast: His life was plunged into controversy and chaos when his homosexual identity was made public.
Eddie Redmayne for "The Theory of Everything"
The love story of the wheelchair-bound theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking comes to life on the big screen, reported ET Online. The story follows the life of Stephen Hawking played by Eddie Redmayne, from the time he was a young scholar who fell in love with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) until he succumbed to the physical atrophy caused by ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).
Who played the best genius of them all: Channing Tatum, Benedict Cumberbatch or Eddie Redmayne? You be the judge.
