The Current War was originally scheduled to release two years ago before it became a casualty of Harvey Weinstein’s (long overdue) excommunication from Hollywood. But a movie with a cast this star-studded (Benedict Cumberbatch! Nicholas Hoult! Michael Shannon! Katherine Waterson! Little baby Tom Holland!) could never have its lights turned off forever. Now here’s the director’s cut of this look back at Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse’s battle for America’s electrical supremacy.
Watch these movies before The Current War.
The Imitation Game
If you want to see Benedict Cumberbatch play an early giant of technology who’s not nearly as dickish as Thomas Edison, check out The Imitation Game. This classic Oscar bait tells the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant British codebreaker who decrypted German messages during World War II, only to be later ostracized for his sexuality.
The Prestige
Nicholas Hoult is cool and all, he was almost Batman, but David Bowie playing Nikola Tesla in a Christopher Nolan movie about feuding magicians is just too powerful too witness. And those magicians are played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman? Even better. The Prestige is one of Nolan’s most underrated flicks.
The Fifth Estate
Our opinions on Julian Assange have definitely… changed since the The Fifth Estate was released six years ago. But the infamous whistleblower hacker has led an interesting life if nothing else. Plus Benedict Cumberbatch with that white hair and awful accent is really funny.
Doctor Strange
Benedict Cumberbatch is just too good at playing smart arrogant dudes who think they’re basically gods. So when he inevitably got conscripted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played Doctor Strange, an already brilliant surgeon who then learns magical reality-warping powers. He wasn’t just in Avengers: Infinity War. They made a whole movie about him, too.
Gangs of New York
Legendary director and noted Marvel hater Martin Scorsese is an executive producer on The Current War. If you want to see a Scorsese movie about a much more bloody type of war happening in America in the 1800s, check out Gangs of New York. We shudder to think about whatever Daniel Day Lewis had to do to get into character as Bill the Butcher
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon put in a lot of work as a second unit director on movies like Argo and Eat Pray Love. It sucks that one of his few features as the primary director got caught up in the Weinstein drama. So why not consider his previous movie, the self-explanatory indie dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
Chinatown
Two different companies fighting to see whose specific electrical system is better doesn’t sound that interesting. But The Current War understands that the feud between Edison and Tesla and Westinghouse is really about the future of power (literally!) in America. The 1974 crime classic Chinatown is great for many reasons, from Robert Towne’s script to Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway’s performance. But the way it similarly understands the power of water and natural resources as cold currency is one of its sneakiest bits of genius.
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