PVR PICTURES today organized a screening of Keanu Reeves starrer Sci-Fi film Replicas for medical students and doctors. The film is based on human cloning. The medical students from Amity college and RML college were excited to watch the science fiction film and talked about the ethics of cloning which is currently a hotly debated topic across the world.
PVR PICTURES will release Replicas in India on January 18th, 2019.
Neuro-scientist William "Will" Foster is on the verge of successfully transferring human consciousness into a computer when his family is tragically killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect them, Will recruits fellow scientist Ed Whittle to help him secretly clone their bodies and create replicas that soon causes him to become a threat towards a government task force. Will eventually faces a "Sophie's choice" when it turns out that he can only bring three of the four family members back to life.Replicas is Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, written by Chad St. John and also stars Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch and John Ortiz. The story and screenplay for REPLICAS was developed at Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel's production company Company Films. Hamel writes the majority of all the stories produced there. The film premiered September 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival.