The BFI revealed today that the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley will open the 58th London Film Festival in October. Studio Canal have also released a first look trailer which you can see below.
Cumberbatch and Knightley are joined by a fearsomely talented cast including Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear and Charles Dance. The film details the work done by the Bletchley Park code breakers during the War focusing, naturally, on Turing whose pioneering work saved lives and most certainly changed the world. Headhunters director Morten Tyldum is behind the camera for this one.
THE IMITATION GAME is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.
The film is out on the 14th of November once its festival run is through.
