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"Keira Knightley could be joining Benedict Cumberbatch in a biopic of code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing. Cumberbatch is attached to star as Turing in The Imitation Game, which will be directed by Morten Tyldum of Headhunters fame.  Knightley is already in talks for the project, according to Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter adds that she will play a woman from a very conservative background who forms a complex, life-long friendship with Turing. The Imitation Game, written by Graham Moore, topped the movie industry&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Black List&amp;#039; of hotly-tipped unproduced scripts in 2011. Leonardo DiCaprio was originally tipped to star. Turing was one of the key figures involved in solving the Enigma Code which led to the Allies&amp;#039; defeat of the Nazis in World War II, and he went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war.   However, he was prosecuted and convicted by the UK government in 1952 when homosexual acts were still deemed illegal in the country.  Turing was sentenced to probation on the condition that he underwent hormone treatment, which ultimately left him impotent, and his death on June 7, 1954 was ruled as suicide.  A private members bill is currently before the House of Lords which, if passed, would grant Turing a statutory, posthumous pardon. The Imitation Game will be financed by Black Bear Pictures. Teddy Schwarzman from the firm will produce the movie, alongside Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky from Ampersand Pictures. Watch Keira Knightley in the trailer for Anna Karenina below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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