Star Movies Select HD to air ‘I Origins’

MUMBAI: Star Movies Select HD is all set to air the science fiction drama I Origins on 19 December, 2015 at 9 pm.

The drama will be an exploration of the end of science and the picking up of spirituality. The film is produced by Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray and Alex Orlovsky.

I Origins narrates the story of Dr. Ian Gray played by Michael Pitt, a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with a young woman enacted by Astrid Berg?s-Frisbey who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen played by Brit Marling, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

The movie also stars Steven Yeun and Archie Panjabi, The movie starts as a love story and then morphs into a thriller, propelled always by the push and pull of faith and logic, with tragedy shifting world views over time.

The movie has also bagged the best feature length film award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fant?stic de Catalunya, bringing home a revenue of $475,591.