The Current War is a 2017 American historical drama film inspired by the 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the “war of the currents”). Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, written by Michael Mitnick, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Edison, Michael Shannon as Westinghouse, Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla, and Tom Holland as Samuel Insull, alongside Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton, Matthew Macfadyen and Damien Molony.
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Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse — the greatest inventors of the industrial age — engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, sees fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
Release date: 26 July 2019 (United Kingdom)
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Music by: Volker Bertelmann; Dustin O’Halloran
Box office: $12.3 million
Distributed by: Lantern Entertainment
Produced by: Timur Bekmambetov; Basil Iwanyk
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Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison
- Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse
- Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla
- Katherine Waterston as Marguerite Erskine Walker
- Tom Holland as Samuel Insull
- Simon Manyonda as Lewis Latimer
- Stanley Townsend as Franklin Pope
- Tuppence Middleton as Mary Stilwell Edison
- Matthew Macfadyen as J. P. Morgan
- Conor MacNeill as William Kemmler
- Damien Molony as Bourke Cockran
- John Schwab as Rudolph Young
- Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Older Dash
- Corey Johnson as Chester A. Arthur
