A new clip has landed for the upcoming true story The Current War. This film was originally screened at the Toronto International Film Festival a couple of years ago but, for varying reasons, hasn’t scored a release date until later this month – you man have even seen some bus posters crop up all over the country this very week.
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, along with Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, and Katherine Waterston.
The new clip has been released to celebrate futurist Nikola Tesla’s birth on 10th July 1856. It features Nicholas Hoult as Tesla, one of the most visionary minds of all time, as he faces off against Benedict Cumberbatch’s Thomas Edison.
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The film tells the story of electricity titans Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), and the dramatic story of the late 19th-century race to light up America and power the world. As mentioned, Nicholas Hoult stars as the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston as Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland as Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen as the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton as Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
The new clip is below.
