It look like Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch may be going to war – over electricity. THR reports that the actors and in talks for The Weinstein Co.’s Current War, playing legendary inventors and industrialists, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison.
The movie ‘takes place in the late-1880s and revolves around power titans Edison and Westinghouse’s battle over the supply of electricity. Edison championed direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating current (AC), which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse Electric.’
Gyllenhaal would be Westinghouse, with Cumberbatch as Edison.
The likes of Timur Bekmambetov and Ben Stiller have previously flirted with directing, but now Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in talks to take the job. If he does sign on, he would helm the film after completing Collateral Beauty, which is due to shoot this autumn.
In the last couple of year Jake Gyllenhaal has been flexing his acting muscles in the likes of Nightcrawler and Southpaw and getting plenty of critical plaudits for doing so. It looks like he’s hoping to continue that run with Demolition, which has now released its first trailer.
A pretty good cast is coming together for Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, with Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson already attached to star. Now 
Sometimes after a movie is made, it’s difficult to imagine any other actors playing the roles. That’s certainly true of Brokeback Mountain, but apparently at one point it seemed unlikely Heath Ledger would get the role of Ennis Del Mar, as he wasn’t considered ‘macho enough’ for the role of the taciturn ranch-hand.
Tom Ford had great success going from fashion designed to film director with A Single Man, and now he’s planning his second movie, Nocturnal Animals, and is lining up a great cash to cast. Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are already attached to star, and now they’re being joined by Michael Shannon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, according to 
There’s no doubt that things are dangerous when you go mountaineering, and that’s certainly true in Everest, which follows the events of what was the biggest tragedy on the mountain until the recent Nepal earthquake.
After getting skinny for the excellent Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal has been hitting the gym massively and beefed up to the max for the boxing drama Southpaw. Now a new trailer has arrived, which you can watch below.
Following the recent tragedy on Everest caused by the Nepal earthquake, the marketing for San Andreas was deliberately toned down. You have to imagine there were a lot of serious conversations about this one, which is based on the true story of the greatest disaster to hit the mountain until this year.