Ethan Hawke Is Nikola Tesla in the Trailer for the Unique Biopic TESLA
IFC Films has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Nikola Tesla biopic titled Tesla. The Movie stars Ethan Hawke, and this is definitely a very interesting and unique way to tell Tesla’s story. I had the chance to see the film at Sundance earlier this year, and in my review, I said:
“While the movie is fun and unique and offers details on Tesla’s life, it’s not really the film that Tesla deserves. Due to the film’s budget constraints, the director and his team had to get creative and they ended up telling Tesla’s story in an interesting way. Some things worked, while other things didn’t.”
The creative team “incorporated some fun comedic moments and even implemented modern-day tech in the film. For example, as the narrator Anne Morgan (Eva Hewson), the daughter of J.P. Morgan, analyzes Tesla and his story, she uses a laptop computer and Google to help illustrate her points.”
It was an enjoyable film in some respects, but not everyone is going to like it. The movie was directed by Michael Almereyda and also stars Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Here’s the synopsis for the film:
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.
Tesla will be released in theaters and on VOD on August 21st.