One film I fully expect to be part of tomorrow’s announcement of the Toronto International Film Festival lineup is the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII.
Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal. The film co-stars Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Rory Kinnear and Matthew Beard.
Aiding my suspicion the film will be among tomorrow’s announcement is today not one but two trailers for the movie have premiered, one a teaser from the UK and the other the official domestic trailer courtesy of the Weinstein Co.
The Imitation Game is set to hit theaters on November 21, check out the trailers below.
