Warner Bros Buys Spec Script About Math Genius Alan Turing For Leonardo DiCaprio

EXCLUSIVE: To anybody by having an intention in people Enigma codebreakerswho aided win World war ii as well as the math prodigies whose work introduced towards the roll-from the earliestcomputers, your title Alan Turing holds a lot of fascination. This British historic figure most prominent from 1940 through 1955 may also be the subject of a big spec script purchase today. First-time film author Graham Moore’sThe Imitation Game was clicked on up by Warner Bros in the 7-figure deal. I’ve discovered that the studio outbid halfa dozen indie companies because Leonardo DiCaprio”has this news” to see charge and was chasing after following the project.But so farno talent is attached.I hear Ron Howard is interested in pointing. First-time producers Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky possessed the rights toAndrew Hodges’ definitive biography Alan Turing: The Enigma and labored with Moorefor a minimum of annually to obtain the script perfect.Moore is yet another first-time novelist and also the crime fiction debut The Sherlockian, filled with Conan Doyle lore, received a rave reviewin The NY Occasions by Jesse Maslin. People I trust tell meThe Imitation Game may be the finest script they’ve read inside a very long time — and so they read plenty of scripts. The existence story from the British math wizzard, logician, cryptanalyst, computer investigator, criminally punished homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide by consuming a cyanide-laced apple has everything. (Apparently, Jobs named his company “Apple” just like a tribute to Turing.) “Think The King’s Speech without any huge advantageous ending,” an origin notifies me. I’m told that CAA’s J.P. Evans, manager Peter Safran, and lawyer Alan Wertheimer madetoday’s purchase happen.