In case you didn’t know, today marks the 164th birthday of the great electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Sooooo uhhh flip on a generator in his honor, I guess? Or you can go the easy route and just check out the new trailer for Tesla, which reunites director Michael Almereyda with his Hamlet and Cymbeline star Ethan Hawke.
Hawke stars as Nikola Tesla, the brooding inventor whose revolutionary ideas would define the future of electricity. The film charts his rivalry with Thomas Edison, played by Kyle Machlachlan, but the story is told through the eyes of J.P. Morgan’s daughter Anne, played by The Knick actress Eve Hewson. Also in the cast are Jim Gaffigan, Donnie Keshawarz , Hannah Gross, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Josh Hamilton, Lois Smith, and James Urbaniak.
Almereyda has been more experimental than ever of late, taking new creative approaches with his films Experimenter and Marjorie Prime. For his work on Tesla he won the Alfred P. Sloan Award at Sundance, where the film made its world premiere.
Tesla hits theaters and VOD on August 21st.
