According to The Hollywood Reporter, Holland is now in talks to join Cumberbatch in The Current War, which has Me and Earl and the Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directing.
Cumberbatch is playing the part of Thomas Edison with Holland up for the role of Edison’s assistant.
Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter‘s Timur Bekmambetov, who at one time was planning to direct The Current War himself, is now set to produce the project alongside Garret Basch and Steve Zaillian.
The Current War cast will also feature Michael Shannon (Midnight Special, The Night Before) as Westinghouse, Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Westinghouse’s wife and Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, X-Men: First Class) as Nikolai Tesla.