Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris. There is disagreement whether Toronto should continue with Edison's DC system or Nikola Tesla's AC system, differences that seemingly result in murder. Michael Almereyda’s film Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan, is a non-traditional biopic about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla’s struggle over the future of electricity. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. Tesla is a 2020 American biographical drama film, written and directed by Michael Almereyda.It stars Ethan Hawke as Nikola Tesla. Brilliant, brooding inventor Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition. Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla – brilliant inventors and industrialists who battled in the early days of electricity to power humankind into the 20th century and beyond, a conflict committed to film in 2017's The Current War . Directed by Alfonso Gomez‐Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison, Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, Katherine Waterson as Westinghouse’s wife, and Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla.It looks like a fun flick. Beck even has a movie in production about Edison that he hopes will "expose the truth" about this "bad man." So what rustles his jimmies these days? In researching The Current War's historical accuracy, we found no record that they ever met in real life. Votes: 335

Former Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck is really sick of talking about politics. The mythologized feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.

It is scheduled to be released on August 21, 2020, by IFC Films Full Name: Thomas Alva Edison: Nikola Tesla: Introduction: Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross and Josh Hamilton also star.. The Current War movie depicts two fleeting encounters between Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and one conversation. This includes meeting briefly in a courtroom and again at a pavilion at the World's Fair.
Instead, Edison ran off and patented it under the Edison name, ensuring Tesla would get no royalties. He developed many devices including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. When he hired a young Nikola Tesla to fix the design of his DC motor, he promised him interest. In the late 19th century, three brilliant inventors, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, battled over which electricity system—direct current …
It drove Tesla to work for the fairer employer, Westinghouse, while Edison was busy making a viable brand. And judging by the trailer, Tesla is much more socially well adjusted than he was in real life.