FIRST LOOK: Benedict Cumberbatch In THE IMITATION GAME

The real Alan Turing.

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch's latest movie is yet another biopic. This time, he "goes back" to the period of World War II to portray code-breaker Alan Turing. The Imitation Game will be his second time after The Fifth Estate, in which Cumberbatch plays a once respected man, who eventually finds himself in the bottom of the barrel.



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Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still criminalised in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined that his death was suicide.

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[Wikipedia]

As for the movie still, check out Cumberbatch's transformation below.

Image via Twitter.

In honor of today's Royal Pardon, please find the first still released from the upcoming film, The Imitation Game. pic.twitter.com/qdJFHSAYj2

— The Imitation Game (@tigmovie) December 24, 2013

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