Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Morgan Matthews’ drama “A Brilliant Young Mind” starring Asa Butterfield and Sally Hawkins, the company announced Monday.
Written by James Graham, the film was previously titled “X + Y” and it will debut in theaters this summer.
Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan co-star in “A Brilliant Young Mind,” which was inspired by Matthews’ 2007 documentary “Beautiful Young Minds.” The movie premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and stars Butterfield as a teenage math prodigy on the autistic spectrum.
Preferring to hide in the safety of his own private world, Nathan (Butterfield) struggles to connect with people, often pushing away those who want to be closest to him, including his mother Julie (Hawkins).