They create two iconic characters who are going to delight and entertain."
So who is Višnjić going to play on the show?
I'm calling in some mindless speculation now:
He's playing Nikola Tesla.
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Višnjić said he was playing one of his favourite characters in history, so[...]
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Nikola Tesla is one of the most underappreciated brilliant minds that helped shape our modern technology He was (until recently) left out of almost all school books when praising *that villain* Thomas Alva Edison's "contributions" to invention and modernization of electricity. He also wasn't officially credited his radio patent dues until more recently, too.
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Alongside Cumberbatch and Shannon, is Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterson, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.
The Current War doesn't currently have a release date, but expect it sometime in 2017.
There's also the following on set photos:
https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/822932101414715394
looking gorgeous! 😍😍😍😍👌#Edison #BenedictCumberbatch #TheCurrentWar ( https://t.co/JsgaRy5fca ) pic.twitter.com/YplMrxYH8Z
— Ilaria (@hilaryami) January 21, 2017
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Pillewar.
The grid technology was designed by Nikola Tesla, based on his understanding of electricity in our world The construction has been undertaken,in secret, by those with plans of world domination The book picks up when just one tower, on the island nation of Malta, is needed to close the earth covering circuit and fire up[...]
How cool would it be if Nikola Tesla was Tony Stark!?" And so began the story of Tesla Force; a fighting team of heroes in vacuum tube encrusted power armor led by Tesla himself! Like the seed of most ideas, it was complete rubbish and utterly derivative But deep down I knew there was something[...]