An official trailer for The Current War is here. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the film as Thomas Edison, the famed inventor who's ready to (quite literally) light up Manhattan using his DC technology. However, before he can, he's challenged by George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), a businessman who believes that he and his partner, Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have found the true way of the future for bringing electricity to America - namely, with Tesla's AC current. As a result, the three men go to war and wind up starting an even bigger corporate battle along the way.

The Current War was one of several completed films that found itself without a home after its original distributor, The Weinstein Company, closed up shop in the wake of co-founder Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse scandal in fall 2017. It took a while but, back in May, the movie was finally picked up by the newly-established 101 Studios and set to hit theaters this October, instead. Now, with fall still a ways off, the studio has officially gotten its marketing campaign for the period drama underway.

101 Studios has now released its trailer for The Current War online, ahead of its arrival on the big screen. You can check it out in the space below.


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