{"id":16639,"date":"2011-10-12T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16639"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:55:15","slug":"warner-brothers-pick-up-wwii-code-breakers-spec-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/12\/warner-brothers-pick-up-wwii-code-breakers-spec-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Brothers Pick Up WWII Code Breakers Spec Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Warner Brothers has purchased The Imitation Game<\/strong>, a spec script about English mathematician Alan Turing who led the country\u2019s codebreaking efforts during World War Two, from first-time screenwriter Graham Moore.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> is reporting that the studio beat out several smaller, indie studios for the script, paying seven figures for the script. Leonardo DiCaprio is said to have \u201cthe inside track\u201d on playing Turing and Ron Howard is reportedly interested in directing. Both DiCaprio and Howard have production deals with the studio, so it is easy to see that Warners is willing to spend some money to keep them happy.<\/p>\n

Moore developed his screenplay from Andrew Hodges\u2019 definitive biography Alan Turing: The Enigma<\/em>, with first-time producers Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky. Moore has recently published his first novel The Sherlockian.<\/p>\n

Turing is an amazing figure and one of the most influential of the 20th century. His mathematical genius helped the Allied effort to decipher Nazi communiqu\u00e9s that were encrypted through their Enigma machine, while the theories he developed during and after the war were instrumental in the creation of the computer. Tragically, in 1952 he was prosecuted for being a homosexual, which was still a crime in Great Britain at that time, and died two years later, a possible suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonardo DiCaprio and Ron Howard may be involved in the project.<\/div>\n

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