Headhunters director Morten Tyldum has signed on to direct Graham Moore's 2011 "Black List" screenplay The Imitation Game , Deadline reports. The film is based on the life of Alan Turing, an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist and Andrew Hodges' definitive biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma." The book is described as follows: Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of the universal machine, which underpins the computer revolution. In 1945 he was a pioneer of...
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