Next year, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth with many events being planned around the world. This week Warner Bros outbid other companies for the script of a biopic based on Turing's life.
Alan Turing the British mathematician, logician and computer scientist who used all of these skills to help decrypt the Nazi codes during World War II, is now recognised as a hero.
This wasn't always the case. For many years Turing's achievements were overshadowed by the fact that he was a criminally prosecuted homosexual, who had undergone both chemical castration and psychiatric treatment before he committed suicide.
The story has unlimited potential, illustrating the genius of the subject, putting homosexuality in context for his time, and a recounting of how many brilliant men and women it took for us to win World War II. But please, for the love of all that is holy, get it right. Don't make it too much about any one aspect for fear that the others be overshadowed and the story become unbalanced. There is so much to this man that a single movie will have a lot to work with, but I am afraid it will take a wobble and try to focus too much on his sexuality or lose him altogether in the history happening all around him.
Several sources say old Leo DiCaprio himself is being considered for the role. That would be
Still, more to come if the story develops.
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