{"id":21757,"date":"2012-08-20T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21757"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:06:40","slug":"warners-drops-black-list-project-imitation-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/20\/warners-drops-black-list-project-imitation-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Warners Drops Black List Project IMITATION GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/AlanTuring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16640\" title=\"AlanTuring\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/AlanTuring-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Warner Brothers has decided not to go forward with development on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/12\/the-imitation-game-heads-this-years-black-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 Black List<\/a> script <strong>The Imitation Game<\/strong>. Topping the annual list of the best unproduced screenplays currently circulating in Hollywood, the studio picked up Graham Moore\u2019s adaptation of Andrew Hodges\u2019 biography <em>Alan Turing: The Enigma<\/em> for a reported seven figure sum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/12\/warner-brothers-pick-up-wwii-code-breakers-spec-script\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last October<\/a>\u00a0after a bidding war with several studios.<\/p>\n<p>Turing was 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 probable suicide.<\/p>\n<p>At one point Leonardo DiCaprio was being considered to star in the project but he never became formally attached.<\/p>\n<p>J. Blakeson was set to direct the project, with Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky are producing. Blakeson is free to shop the project around to other studios.<\/p>\n<p>Via \u2013 The Wrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The story of the World War Two British codebreaker and founder of modern computer science is now in turnaround.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/20\/warners-drops-black-list-project-imitation-game\/\" title=\"Warners Drops Black List Project IMITATION GAME\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4396],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-the-imitation-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21757"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}