The Current War Trailer: I’m Just Here To See Nikola Tesla Put Hands On Thomas Edison

I’ma tell you right now, this trailer is only built for folks who did science fairs projects. Y’all don’t hear me, I said: this trailer is for those that put together two 2-liter soda bottles and made a tornado. This trailer is for anyone that ever made a baking soda volcano. *grabs the microphone* This trailer is for any brown kid that re-assembled a digital clock in a pencil case from scrap, brought it to school to impress your teachers but got arrested cause another teacher thought it was a bomb. This trailer right here is scientific beef in the fucking scientific streets. I’ma let you know now I’m not even going to hide my bias against Edison here. The Current War centers around the actual War of the Currents in the late 1800’s. There is a strong need for the distribution of electricity and Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) is plotting world domination to get that monopoly money by having Direct Current (DC) be the main electrical power transmission used for homes and business. DC provides lower powered electricity which is safe but has a short range. Edison got that shit tatt’d across the belly and is racing to have this be the way of the future, because whoever controls electricity will run the world. Enter George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) who is moving away from gas and breaking into electricity. Westinghouse is providing competition against Edison (where there was none prior). Westinghouse competes against Edison by repping Alternating Current (AC) (foreshadow…