The Current War
An prescribed trailer forThe Current Waris here . Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the film as Thomas Edison , the famed discoverer who ’s ready to ( quite literally ) alight up Manhattan using his DC technology . However , before he can , he ’s challenged by George Westinghouse ( Michael Shannon ) , a businessman who believes that he and his partner , Nikolai Tesla ( Nicholas Hoult ) , have found the true means of the future for contribute electricity to America - namely , with Tesla ’s AC current . As a result , the three men go to war and wind up starting an even magnanimous corporate battle along the way .
The Current Warwas one of several completed film that found itself without a dwelling afterits original distributor , The Weinstein Company , closed up shopin the Wake Island of cobalt - founder Harvey Weinstein ’s intimate abuse scandal in fall 2017 . It took a while but , back in May , the flick was in conclusion pick up by the newly - found 101 Studios andset to slay theater this October , alternatively . Now , with fall still a ways off , the studio has formally gotten its merchandising effort for the catamenia drama afoot .
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101 Studioshas now released its poke forThe Current Waronline , ahead of its arriver on the vainglorious screen . you may check it out in the space below .
Written by Michael Mitnick ( The Giver ) and direct by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon ( Me and Earl and the Dying Girl),The Current Waractually premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival ( onwards of the Weinstein scandal ) and earn mixed to electronegative reviews from the critic there . However , in the nearly two years since then , Gomez - Rejon has made some substantial changes to the picture show ’s theatrical cut . In an interview withEWin coordination with the new trailer ’s release , the filmmaker confirmed that he ’d sum up a handful of new scenes , cut the overall runtime , and even incorporated a brand - new score intoThe Current War . As he explained to the wall socket , the cut that shield at TIFF two years ago was"a work in progress that was n’t fully realized , and far from what I intended the picture to be " . He went on to assert thatThe Current War ’s latest track is the"best version"of the movie , and what he wanted to make in the first position .
base on the preview , The Current Warseems like a fairly schematic awards season - friendly historical drama - albeit , one make for to liveliness by a great cast thatalso includes Tom Holland(in a character he fool most two and a one-half years ago ) , as well asAlien : Covenant ’s Katherine Waterston andSense8star Tuppence Middleton . The cinematography byStokerandIT ’s Chung - Soon Chung looks pretty fashionable too , which should help to liven up the biopic - y proceedings here . The Current Wardoesn’t really feel like a must - see for the metre being , but that could change once the great unwashed begin to get a look at this revised cutting off that Gomez - Rejon ’s assembled .
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Source:101 Studios , EW
