Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Benedict Cumberbatch | ... | Thomas Alva Edison | |
Oliver Powell | ... | Leo | |
Sophia Ally | ... | Dot (Younger) | |
Tuppence Middleton | ... | Mary Edison | |
Woody Norman | ... | Dash (Younger) | |
Tom Holland | ... | Samuel Insull | |
Matthew Macfadyen | ... | J.P. Morgan | |
Dominic Coleman | ... | White House Butler | |
Corey Johnson | ... | President Chester A. Arthur | |
Katherine Waterston | ... | Marguerite Westinghouse | |
Michael Shannon | ... | George Westinghouse | |
Stanley Townsend | ... | Franklin Pope | |
Nicholas Hoult | ... | Nikola Tesla | |
Emma Davies | ... | Female Reporter | |
Nigel Whitmey | ... | Doctor Grandoff |
Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) with Producer Timur Bekmambetov, Basil Iwanyk and Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, The Current War also stars ...
Hollywood always makes movies that represents Americans (or in this case born-American-capitalist) as a heros, whether that's true or not...Real hero in this "current war" is undoubtedly biggest mind in history of humankind - Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla, who's totally sidelined in America's educational system, while Edison (who stole from him) is a God...This movie doesn't help...Sportswise saying, it's like it you're comparing Jusein Bolt and Justin Gatlin...First one is obviously the best, second one is two-times (caught!!!) cheater, but he's an American, so I doubt that in, say, 15 years from now, if Hollywood decides to make movie about their rivalry, Gatelin would be shown as a villain...I really hope that some day someone will make movie that Tesla really deserves.