**Update: **Not to be outdone, Keira Knightley's Joan Clarke has scored her own variant of the poster.
Benedict Cumberbatch - officially The Busiest Actor In The UniverseTM - will soon return to our screens with the wartime drama, The Imitation Game. In preparation, a new poster has been transmitted and it's, um, cracking (sorry).
The film tells the true story of the race to crack the Nazi Enigma code during World War II, with the effort led by mathematical genius Alan Turing (Cumberbatch). Helping him in his efforts are Keira Knightley, Mark Strong and Matthew Goode, all adding up to an impressive cast of British thesps.
In the new issue of Empire (on sale now), Cumberbatch revealed how intriguing he found Turing as a character: "Turing's like Churchill described Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
The script, by Graham Moore, was on Hollywood's Black List of best unproduced screenplays in 2011 and seriously impressed the actor: "The [script's] conjunction of secrets, of a man who has to keep his homosexuality a secret, and the breaking of secrets in World War II, and the strands of his life it shed light on, I thought was masterful. I really knew who he was by reading the script."
Turing was central to cracking the code and is often called the father of modern computing. However, he was persecuted for his homosexuality after the war, and was prosecuted for it in 1952. He died from cyanide poisoning a few years later, in what is generally thought to have been suicide.
The Imitation Game will open the London Film Festival on October 8, but if you can't wait until then, we premiered another gorgeous poster of Cumberbatch and his Cumberback earlier this month.
{The Imitation Game Exclusive Poster}
The Imitation Game is directed by Morten Tyldum (of Headhunters fame) and will be released generally on November 14.