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

EXCLUSIVE: To anybody with an intention in individuals Enigma codebreakerswho assisted win World war 2 and also the math prodigies whose work brought to the roll-out of the earliestcomputers, then your title Alan Turing holds a great deal of fascination. This British historic figure most prominent from 1940 through 1955 can also be the topic of a large spec script purchase today. First-time film writer Graham Moore’sThe Imitation Game was clicked up by Warner Bros inside a 7-figure deal. I’ve found that the studio outbid halfa dozen indie companies because Leonardo DiCaprio”has the news” to experience charge and was chasing after the project.But so farno talent is attached.I hear Ron Howard has an interest in pointing. First-time producers Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky possessed the privileges toAndrew Hodges’ definitive biography Alan Turing: The Enigma and labored with Moorefor at least a year to find the script perfect.Moore is another first-time novelist and the crime fiction debut The Sherlockian, full of Conan Doyle lore, received a rave reviewin The NY Occasions by Jesse Maslin. People I trust tell meThe Imitation Game is the greatest script they’ve read in a long time — plus they read lots of scripts. The existence story of the British math wizzard, logician, cryptanalyst, computer researcher, criminally punished homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide when you eat a cyanide-laced apple has everything. (Apparently, Jobs named his company “Apple” like a tribute to Turing.) “Think The King’s Speech with no huge beneficial ending,” a resource informs me. I’m told that CAA’s J.P. Evans, manager Peter Safran, and lawyer Alan Wertheimer madetoday’s purchase happen.