Paul Bettany has had a busy week promoting his new movie Creation, in which he plays Charles Darwin.

Not only did the movie open the Toronto Film Festival, the first non Canadian film to fo so in a few years, but the film also received it’s UK premiere on Sunday night.

Darwin’s great, still controversial, book on The Origin of Species depicts nature as a battleground. In Creation the battleground is a man’s heart.

Torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place, Darwin finds himself caught in a struggle between faith and reason, love and truth.

This is not the grey-bearded old man that most people imagine when they think of Darwin. The Darwin we meet in Creation is a young, vibrant father, husband and friend whose mental and physical health gradually buckles under the weight of guilt and grief for a lost child.

Ultimately it is Annie, his adored 10 year-old daughter who leads him out of darkness and helps him reconnect with his wife and family. Only then is he able to create the book that changed the world.

Take a look at footage from the premiere and clips from the movie:

Everyone loves a biog movie and they are becoming more and more common when Oscar season kicks off in September.

Creation is just one of these movies this year as Paul Bettany takes on the role of Charles Darwin.

The movie follows English naturalist Darwin who finds himself torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own realization that creation may be explained without a god.

Creation is released 25th September, take a look at the trailer: