Benedict Cumberbatch In Talks for Role That Screams ‘Oscar’ By Kevin Wicks | Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2013 (BBC AMERICA)

Benedict Cumberbatch at the 2013 Golden Globes. (Photo: John Shearer/Invision/AP)

Benedict Cumberbatch may not be done Hoovering up all of the choice roles in Hollywood just yet. According to Deadline, Sherlock star is reportedly eyeing a real-life part that has Oscar written all over it, English mathematician Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. Leonardo DiCaprio once voiced interest in playing the genius who was tormented by the British government over his homosexuality, but the project has been in limbo since 2011. Now, Mortem Tyldum is attached to direct.


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Benedict Cumberbatch 'in talks to play Alan Turing' the Enigma codebreaker MATILDA BATTERSBY FRIDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2013 (INDEPENDENT)

Benedict Cumberbatch who is currently playing Julian Assange in Wikileaks film The Fifth Estate looks set to bag another high profile real-life character.

The Sherlock actor is in talks to play Bletchley Park codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing according to a report in Deadline.

Graham Moore's screenplay The Imitation Game has been commissioned by Black Bear Pictures with Headhunters' Morten Tyldum signed up to direct.

Turing is widely hailed as responsible for cracking the Enigma Code which greatly helped British naval efforts during the Second World War. Also known for what is regarded as the first blue print for modern computing, Turing's heroic wartime activities were not revealed to his family or the world until after his death.

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