Turing biopic with Cumberbatch, Knightley to premiere at London Film Festival

Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the legendary codebreaker and computer boffin, will open the prestigious London Film Festival in early October. Official Imitation Game trailer on YouTube. The British Film Institute announced that The Imitation Game, a dramatisation of Turing’s life, …

[Pypes]

1:54

I made that wallpaper! (along with some more I couldn't spot in the trailer)

Oscar nominations in writing to the AMPAS please.

[Lamont Cranston]

"Joan Clarke was rather plain,"

Strip away the makeup and hair spray, and I'd imagine that Keira Knightley looks distinctly ordinary, too.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: "Joan Clarke was rather plain,"

LIES!

[tony2heads]

Re: "Joan Clarke was rather plain,"

Make up your own mind about Keira:

http://www.stars-without-makeup.com/-/pics/keira-knightley/24038-keira-knightley-without-makeup.jpg

[big_D]

Real portrayl?

Well at least this time the Enigma was found by a British crew and Bletchley Park is still in England and hasn't been magically transported to middle America...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Real portrayl?

Do the Poles get credit?

And who plays Ciceley Popplewell?

[Dr Who]

Re: Real portrayl?

Could have been worse. They might have gone the whole hog and cast Johnny Depp as Turing. Mind you, code breaking is probably about as close to swashbuckling pirate activity as boffinry gets.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Real portrayl?

"Do the Poles get credit?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28167071

[BlueGreen]

Re: Real portrayl?

"Do the Poles get credit?" / http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28167071

Well, well. It looks yet again that great chunks of history have been left out of my education yet again. I'm getting a bit annoyed by these not-accidental lacunae. Thanks for that link.

And whoever Cicely M. Popplewell is, she doesn't even have a wiki page. Curiously, amazon's got one of her books though <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Processing-1962-Cicely-Popplewell/dp/B000LZH40S>

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Real portrayl?

You may notice that WWII was started to guarantee that the german town of Danzig remained in Poland, but ended with Poland ravaged and handed to Stalin on a platter while the lying liar FDR maintained to the end (which is to say, until the presidential elections were over and had obtained the polish vote) that Poland would be get a dose of freedom and that Stalin had jolly well agreed to this. This was then followed up with operation Keelhaul, about which the less said the better.

Any correlations with current events are totally unintended and no animals are being harmed.

[jason 7]

Anyone interested should read -

ENIGMA The Battle For The Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

A lot of names and detail but explains that it was a massive effort from a lot of people not just the two or three players the movies concentrate on.

[Julian Taylor]

Re: Anyone interested should read -

I am sure that everyone who worked there was amply deserving of the accolades that only a few were given but this is not centred upon Enigma, nor Bletchley. It is very much focussed upon Alan Turing, his mathematics and his personal life or, as Hodges puts it, 'to overcome the twentieth-century chasm between scientific thought and human life,'.

[jason 7]

Re: Anyone interested should read -

Quite right.

[Kevin Reilly]

No one seems interested in Bletchleys greatest cryptographic achievement. This was not Enigma but the Lorenz crack, AKA cracking Hitlers Blackberry. Obviously not Gay enough.

[Peter Simpson 1]

Cheap shot.

[Kevin Reilly]

History being rewritten by the victors is just as bad as it being written by those with an agenda. 1969s giant leap for mankind was made possible by War criminals who also thought up the idea of a fleet of subs firing V2 rockets at the continental USA. But NASA won't be mentioning that anytime soon.

[BlinkenLights]

"No one seems interested in ... the Lorenz crack".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-27737921

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Sir

Has anyone made a decent film about Tesla yet?

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Sir

No but you can have the manga instead. Possibly a bit apocryphal though.

[Roj Blake]

Re: Sir

The Prestige is a decent enough film, which shows us that Tesla was exactly like David Bowie

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sir

Also try the graphic novel Five Fists of Science - not sure its accurate though

[GettinSadda]

Does not match!

If the film is like the trailer, and my recollections of the project are right, this is not accurate! Anyone else get the same feeling?

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Does not match!

HUSH!

[phuzz]

Re: Does not match!

As another comentard mentioned, at least Turing hasn't been retconned into a yank. Count your blessings etc.