 Edison discusses what it was like to achieve a great invention, and suggests that his next invention (motion pictures) could be so incredible that people might forget his name was ever associated with electricity.Michael Mitnick began writing the script for "The Current War" in 2008, basing it on the real life "war of the currents" AC/DC conflict between Edison and Westinghouse.The screenplay is the conclusive result of sixty drafts, a ten-year writing process, first as a musical and finally as a film.