The Weinstein Co. has released two new pictures from Morten Tyldum‘s The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch playing English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing in the story of how Turing helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
The second picture below also features Keira Knightley as English cryptanalyst Joan Clarke, Matthew Beard as British mathematician Peter Hilton, Matthew Goode as Irish-born British cryptanalyst Hugh Alexander and Allen Leech as Soviet double agent John Cairncross.
The film is currently slated for a November 21 release, which suggests fall film festival premiere and possible Oscar attention and if you’re unfamiliar with Tyldum’s work, he’s the director behind the highly lauded 2011 feature Headhunters, which I’ve been meaning to see for some time and is available on Netflix Instant if you’re interested.
Here’s the full synopsis followed by that second new picture:
In The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan 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.
