I've been anxiously watching the TIFF youtube page, where new trailers and clips are being uploaded daily. Fingers crossed Damien appears in the trailer too!

domino wrote:

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I've been anxiously watching the TIFF youtube page, where new trailers and clips are being uploaded daily. Fingers crossed Damien appears in the trailer too!

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It's frustratingly impossible to guess how substantial, or 'blink and you'll miss it', Damien's part may be in this.  Really, really hope he'll be in the trailer....but I guess whether he is or not it'll still be difficult to guess how prominent he'll be in the film....

RPLovesIpswich wrote:

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Hoping to see something exciting soon! Really looking forward to seeing this film. Can't wait to see Damien in Victorian clothes again!

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 Rosie, I must confess to the same! Can't wait to see him as Bourke Cockran! the costume, the hair (facial and otherwise) and his accent.  Damien always surprises with his accents. Cockran was born in Ireland and went to America when he was 17.. so will it be Irish or American? (I think I'm most looking forward to an american accent in one of his TV or film projects, which we have not yet seen (heard), only in radio / reading projects. Perhaps it will go some way towards compensating us for missing out on 'The Devil You Know'!)

TIFF's The Current War synopsis and semi review is encouraging!

"fleet, eye-catching style", "a sizzle and visual imagination", "both heat and light...sweeping epic"

In 2017, it's nearly impossible to imagine a world without electric light. Yet the technology that illuminates our homes and projects images onto our screens dates back only the length of two lifetimes. The Current War, featuring brilliant performances from Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, brings to life the innovations and rivalries that would switch on the world.

Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) knew he was a genius — and he made sure everyone else knew it, too. In 1879, he and his team conducted the first successful light bulb tests, declaring an end to night as people knew it. But the broad distribution of electricity posed a daunting challenge. Edison was convinced that direct current was the superior system, but entrepreneur George Westinghouse (Shannon, also appearing at this year's Festival in The Shape of Water), Edison's less flamboyant competitor, had a different idea.

We now know Westinghouse and Edison as household names, and their work as central to modern life, but the thrill of this film comes from watching them as men — brilliant minds and exceptional inventors, perhaps, but driven as much as anyone by pride, revenge, guile and maybe money, too. Both sought to bring electricity to the world. Only one of them could win the war to be first.

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon makes an impressive leap in scale here from his much-admired independent film, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. It's worth noting, though, that he apprenticed on films by Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. The fleet, eye-catching style he deploys here shows a sizzle and visual imagination that shouldn't be surprising. His skill, combined with the towering talent of Cumberbatch and Shannon, lends both heat and light to this sweeping epic.

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