In the early 1980s, director Michael Almereyda penned a script about the brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, spurred to do so by a close friend’s interest in the figure. But while that script was optioned in 1983, the film was never made., finally bringing his take on the icon to the screen. “I dusted the script off…It had a lot of dust on it,” the director told Deadline at Sundance, “and we reinvented it for the present moment.
In the historical drama, Ethan Hawke stars as the titular Tesla, a controversial and complex individual who aspires to change the world with his creations. Frustrated by the greed of fellow inventor Thomas Edison , Tesla nonetheless forges ahead with his plans to create the groundbreaking alternate-current motor.unique—“among all the Tesla projects that didn’t get made”—is a central narrative device it employs. As Anne Morgan—the daughter of J.P.
At the same time, he admitted, he couldn’t help but be frustrated by MacLachlan, while shooting the film. “I personally find it insulting and upsetting, how good Kyle is in the movie. I find it really irritating, and I know for a fact that Tesla would find it irritating,” the actor joked. “Because Edison is supposed to be diminished, in a movie about Tesla. You’re not supposed to steal the freaking movie.”claimed the Alfred P.