Stephen Fry to
codirect movie about math genius

Out actor (V for Vendetta) and filmmaker (Bright Young Things) Stephen Fry will codirect a film about one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians. BBC News reports that Fry and Indian director Dev Benegal will collaborate on the screen biography of Srinavasa Ramanujan, a college dropout whose radical mathematical theorems astonished Cambridge University professors in the early 1900s. "For me, Ramanujan's work and ideas are the DNA of what powers digital technology today," says Benegal. "When your automated teller machines divide and arrange your money before coughing it up, they are all using Ramanujan's partition theory." Fry and Benegal are searching for a leading man and will begin scouting locations in Delhi later this month. (The Advocate)