PRINCIPAL CAST

Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Tuppence Middleton, Matthew Macfadyen, Damien Molony, Tom Bell, Conor MacNeill, Celyn Jones, Abigail Johns, Ekow Quartey, Tom Sweet

DIRECTOR

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

WRITER

Michael Mitnick

SYNOPSIS

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.

GENRE

Drama

RATING

Rated PG-13
some disturbing/violent images, and thematic elements

STUDIO

The Weinstein Company