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The world is arguably overdue for a biographical film about the eccentric Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, and Director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story) has obliged with his new film, Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke. The director has probably read just about everything about Tesla ever written.Along with Margaret Cheney's seminal 1981 biography, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Almereyda was particularly influenced by Christopher Cooper's 2015 book, The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius, which dispels many of the most popular myths and Internet rumors surrounding the inventor, as well as Derek Jarman films and episodes of Drunk History. (Elon Musk named his company as a tribute to the inventor.) That said, he has appeared as a fictionalized character in multiple novels, comics, films and TV shows.Most notably, Christopher Nolan's 2006 film, The Prestige (based on the 1995 novel by Christopher Priest), featured a fictionalized Tesla (played by David Bowie) inventing a electro-replicating machine for a late 19th century magician to recreate a rival's illusion called "The Transported Man." And last year, Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon released the director's cut of his film, The Current War, a fictionalized account of the historical rivalry between Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) to bring electricity to the masses, in which Nicholas Hoult played Tesla. Further ReadingThe “original disruptors” go head to head in The Current War: Director’s Cut"Nolan was clever in getting an icon [Bowie] to play an icon, but he also fabricated a Tesla that has no relation to reality," Almereyda told Ars. So I think of The Prestige more as a very good comic book movie." As for The Current War, Almereyda correctly notes that Tesla is largely sidelined in that film to focus on the business rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse.So Almereyda felt there really hadn't been a film yet made about Tesla that truly did the inventor justice. It was Almereyda's way of tying Tesla's past to our present."To pretend to follow a conventional path about this very unconventional man just seemed flat-footed," said Almereyda. "I think the next 40 years were pretty miserable for him, and that's a long, long period of misery," said Almereyda, who would love to see more movies about Tesla in the future.
As said here by Jennifer Ouellette