The story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age is retold in Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s biographical drama, The Current War: Director’s Cut.
Gomez-Rejon’s film reveals how electricity titans Thomas Edison — who was backed by J.P. Morgan — and George Westinghouse — who was aided by Nikola Tesla — engaged in a battle of technology and ideas to determine whether direct current or alternating current would power the modern world.
Following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on October 1, Gomez-Rejon sat down with Director Jonathan Mostow (The Hunter's Prayer) to discuss the making of The Current War: Director’s Cut. Gomez-Rejon also discussed the film in a conversation moderated by Director Kent Jones (Diane) following the DGA membership screening in New York on October 27.
In addition to The Current War: Director’s Cut, Gomez-Rejon’s credits include the feature films Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Town That Dreaded Sundown, the pilot for the series Red Band Society, and episodes of the television series American Horror Story, The Carrie Diaries and Glee. He has been a DGA member since 1999.
You can listen to Gomez-Rejon's Q&A by clicking the podcast episode embedded below. You can find more DGA podcast episodes here.