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The Current War
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison's direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and written by playwright Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of our Parents), THE CURRENT WAR also stars Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.
Benedict Cumberbatch....Thomas Edison
Nicholas Hoult....Nikola Tesla
Katherine Waterston....Marguerite Westinghouse
Tuppence Middleton....Mary Edison
Michael Shannon....George Westinghouse
Matthew Macfadyen....J.P. Morgan
Louis Ashbourne Serkis....Older Dash
Damien Molony....Bourke Cockran
Simon Kunz....Womack
Amy Marston....Annabelle Worthington
Faye Ormston....Party Guest
Celyn Jones....Sherman Quincy
Colin Stinton....Daniel Burnham
Tom Sweet....Boy
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