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The film [Creation] was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
Religulous and Dan Brown's take on Christian history aren't too hot to touch, but Darwin is?
You think scientists are tough to get to act as a group? Try getting movie studios and distributors who are all out to kill each other and lack the same rules of conduct scientists have, to agree to do anything in a bloc. Thus, it is unlikely because of the religious community but more likely because a boring movie about Newton wouldn't get a distributor either. So I think this is hype/exaggeration because no one wants to buy their movie. The US is still the biggest market but Darwin is a British character and not many British dramas do all that well this decade.
However, after this latest media hype about it, it is guaranteed to get a distributor. 100%.