The Current War

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The Current War merupakan kisah dramatis pertarungan sengit antara raksasa listrik Thomas Edison dan George Westinghouse untuk menentukan sistem kelistrikan siapa yang akan memberi daya pada dunia modern.

  • Tanggal Rilis : 25 Oktober 2019
  • Negara : Amerika Serikat
  • Genre : Biography, Drama, History
  • Durasi : 1 Jam 42 Menit
  • Sutradara : Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Penulis : Michael Mitnick
  • Pemain : Benedict Cumberbatch, Oliver Powell, Sophia Ally

Storyline

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.

Cast

  • 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

Box Office

  • Budget : $30,000,000 (estimated)
  • Opening Weekend USA : $2,633,717, 27 October 2019
  • Gross USA : $5,979,540
  • Cumulative Worldwide Gross : $12,217,160

Production Company

  • Bazelevs Production
  • Film Rites
  • Fourth Floor Productions
  • Lantern Entertainment
  • The Weinstein Company

Critic Reviews

Movie Nation – Roger Moore : With this “Director’s Cut,” Gomez-Rejon and his editors have saved a witty, well-acted and gorgeous-looking movie and given it the heart, history and intellectual heft it needed to come off.

CineVue – Lucy Popescu : The Current War feels like a history lesson with interesting visuals, rather than a compelling, fully-realised historical drama.

Slant Magazine – Pat Brown : The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.

Official Site

  • www.facebook.com/currentwarmovie
  • www.instagram.com/currentwarfilm
  • www.currentwarmovie.com/home
  • www.edisons-game.jp
  • www.twitter.com/currentwarfilm

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