8 DAYS | 17STORYDOUGLAS TSENGPHOTOS: GOLDEN VILLAGEElectric company:
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
with TUPPENCE MIDDLETON as
Thomas Edison and his wife,
Mary. The Current War’s US
release has been postponed to
next year because of the scandal
surrounding Harvey Weinstein,
who’s one of the movie
producers.This means war:
MICHAEL SHANNON as
Edison’s longtime rival, George
Westinghouse, the inventor of
the railway air brake. Legend has
it that Edison electrocuted an
elephant — named Topsy —
in 1903 to prove how unsafe
Westinghouse’ alternate
current system is.