Benedict Cumberbatch ( Star Trek Into Darkness ) is in talks to play Alan Turing in director Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game , reports Deadline . The film, written by Graham Moore, is based on Andrew Hodges' 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 electronic computer design. But Turing's true goal was the scientific understanding of the mind,...
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