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We finally have some info on the release of The Current War, the true story of the creation of electricity that stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) back in 2017, but hadn’t received a release date. Until today.
Entertainment Film Distributors will release the film in the UK in the summer. Benedict Cumberbatch appears as the great American inventor Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon plays his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghous. It will land on Friday 26th July.
Related: The Current War review [TIFF]
Official synopsis:
In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current. The rivalry begins in his lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and spills onto the country’s front pages into a bitter court case. The two struggle via fair means and foul to win the War of the Currents.
We have a brand new trailer for the film below.
