The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game is set to kick off the BFI London Film Festival later this week and it is a movie that has already been making waves on the festival circuit.
The brand new trailer for The Imitation Game has arrived, and it promises to be a tense character driven film with terrific performances at its core.
It is a film that was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival and it is movie that has been a tip for Oscar success for quite some time.
Benedict Cumberbatch has had another terrifically successful year with the likes of 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County and a new series of Sherlock Holmes, he really is one of the most in demand actors around.
However, The Imitation Game is set to send his star rocketing even further as this is the biggest lead role of his film career to date. It is also the performance that could see him on the Academy’s radar at the beginning of next year.
Cumberbatch takes on the central role of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, the mathematician who helped break the Enigma Code during the Second World War. Sadly, he was not celebrated as the war hero he should have been, instead he was pursued because of his homosexuality.
Cumberbatch is joined by an all-star cast, as Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, and Matthew Goode are just some of the names on board. Morten Tyldum is back in the director’s chair for the first time since Headhunters.
The Imitation Game is one of the movies that I have been looking forward to for some time, and I can’t wait to see Cumberbatch in action. Could he scoop the Best Actor at the Oscars next years? I think he is definitely going to be in the mix.
The Imitation Game is released 14th November and kicks off the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.