The Imitation Game Trailer

Trailer for The Imitation Game.

In The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.

The The Imitation Game has been in the works for many years as it received top honors by being awarded the "Best Unproduced" script from the 2001 Black List. Then eventually The Weinstein Company outbid other studios a won the right for the film for $7 million, which was the most ever paid for US distribution rights for a film at the European Film Market.