The Current War: Director's Cut

Biography, Drama, History

The film presents a version of the real-life "war of the currents" between electricity titans Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla, which determined whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Tuppence Middleton, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Hoult
Produced by: Timur Bekmambetov, Basil Iwanyk
Written by: Michael Mitnick

Music by: Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka
Cinematography: Chung-hoon Chung
Edited by: David Trachtenberg, Justin Krohn

Production company: Bazelevs Company, Film Rites, Thunder Road Pictures
Distributed by: 101 Studios (United States), Lantern Entertainment (International)
Release date: September 9, 2017 (TIFF), October 25, 2019 (United States)

Running time: 107 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

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

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