Timur Bekmambetov got a script by Michael Mitnick's "The War of the current» (The Current War) from the "Black List" for 2011. The Western media, and after them, and we wonder that it was not a vampire, or shooting with two hands special agent, or - at first, at least, the view - room for special effects in the center of the plot - a confrontation between two great American Engineers and Manufacturers of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Chances are good that the film will be the next director Bekmambetov's work after "President Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
The essence of a bloodless war, Edison and Westinghouse - the last act with the active support of Nikola Tesla - in the struggle for the use of AC and DC, respectively. The competition moved quickly out of the plane of scientific interest in the business: Edison and Westinghouse battled in tenders sought and found weaknesses in your opponents, do not disdain sneer.
News of the acquisition of rights to the script Bekmambetov Mitnick accompanies the news that the role of Thomas Edison's keen interest Sacha Baron Cohen. But still, if the director and reflects on the casting, the press reported this says nothing. One of the executive producers of the project is declared a big Hollywood playwright Steven Zeyllian ("Schindler's List," "The man who changed everything").