After taking Toronto International Film Festival by storm by winning the top audience award, The Weinstein Company looks to be putting all their cards on The Imitation Game when it comes to this awards season. While that endless campaigning will certainly get tiresome in mere months, we’re simply hoping the drama stands on its own, and it looks to be the case thus far.
Coming from director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), the drama follows Benedict Cumberbatch as computer genius and WWII hero Alan Turing, and today a new trailer has landed. Also starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode, and Allen Leech, the story looks at Turin’s life as a brilliant technician, whose work in cracking the Axis forces’ “Enigma Code” was a huge boon in the effort to end World War II but he fell under prosecution later in his life for being homosexual. Check out the new trailer and poster below and head over here to watch the TIFF press conference.
Based on the real life story of Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), who is credited with cracking the German Enigma code, THE IMITATION GAME portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British Establishment, but his work and legacy live on.
The Imitation Game arrives on November 21st, 2014.