In “The Current War,” Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon face off as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse in the race to electrify America. The movie, which will be released in October, faced its own hurdles, including a scrapped first cut, reshoots and the Weinstein Co. meltdown. When Timur Bekmambetov, who produced “The Current War,” bought the script in 2012, he saw relevance to today’s world, in which the wonder and peril of technology go hand in hand. “It’s about innovation, it’s about the responsibility of new...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 22, 2019 13:01 UTC