History hasn’t exactly been kind to Nikolai Tesla. First he essentially comes up third in a three-man race with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, then The Current War, a movie about the …
History hasn’t exactly been kind to Nikolai Tesla. First he essentially comes up third in a three-man race with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, then, a movie about the whole electrical battle, gets caught up in the Harvey Weinstein scandal and delayed by nearly two years.is on track to light up screens this October, and the official trailer from the newly formed 101 Studios looks intriguing.
“This is a battle of the brightest minds of America,” says Cumberbatch’s Edison, setting the stage for what 101 Studios describes as the epic story “of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world.” With Edison about to bring electricity to Manhattan with his new DC technology, Westinghouse and the upstart Tesla unveil the rival AC current, sparking American history’s greatest corporate feud.also stars Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen and Tuppence Middleton.
The film had initially been set for a Thanksgiving 2017 release via The Weinstein Company, but got caught up in TWC’s bankruptcy in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Former TWC CEO David Glasser and COO David Hutkin’s 101 Studios launched in January, and
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