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The Current War Movie Storyline. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and written by playwright Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of our Parents), The Current War also stars Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, The Current War is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century.
Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
The Current War is a 2017 American historical drama film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Michael Mitnick. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, Simon Manyonda, and Tuppence Middleton, and depicts the war of the currents between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Martin Scorsese serves as an executive producer on the film.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2017. Originally to be distributed by The Weinstein Company in November 2017, the film was shelved and sold off following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations. It was eventually bought by Lantern Entertainment (the successor of TWC), who then sold the domestic distribution rights to 101 Studios.
The Current War (2019)
Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Starring: Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton, Michael Shannon, Faye Ormston, Emma Davies, Amy Marston
Screenplay by: Michael Mitnick
Production Design by: Jan Roelfs
Cinematography by: Chung-hoon Chung
Film Editing by: Justin Krohn, David Trachtenberg
Costume Design by: Michael Wilkinson
Set Decoration by: Lucy Eyre, Richard Roberts, Katie Scopes
Art Direction by: Stephen Bream, David Doran, R. Tyler Evans, Nic Pallace, Mark Scruton, Remo Tozzi
Music by: Danny Bensi, Volker Bertelmann, Saunder Jurriaans, Dustin O’Halloran
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing/violent images, and thematic elements.
Distributed by: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: October 4, 2019
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