{"id":23051,"date":"2013-02-05T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=23051"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:22:25","slug":"cumberbatch-in-talks-to-play-code-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/02\/cumberbatch-in-talks-to-play-code-breaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberbatch In Talks To Play Code Breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23054\" title=\"CumberbatchTuring020513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CumberbatchTuring020513.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> actor <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> is in talks to play an English mathematician.<\/p>\n<p>If Cumberbatch does sign the deal, he would take on the role of <strong>Alan Turing<\/strong> in The Imitation Game.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Turing was a mathematician and a genius who worked at Bletchley Park, where codebreakers worked to decrypt ciphers and codes including the German &#8220;Enigma Code&#8221; during World War II. He is considered to be the founder of computer science.<\/p>\n<p>In 1952, Turing, who was gay, was arrested for homosexuality, which was then a criminal offense in the UK. To avoid prison, he accepted chemical castration, but the entire ordeal led to his suicide in 1954.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Imitation Game<\/em> will be directed by <strong>Morten Tyldum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek into Darkness actor Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to play an English mathematician&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3928,5327,5330],"class_list":["post-23051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-cumberbatch","tag-the-imitiation-game","tag-turing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23057,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions\/23057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}