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Graham Moore Tops The Black List

December 13, 2011 By WHC Insider

Nikki Finke, of Deadline Hollywood, breaks the story about Graham Moore’s screenplay The Imitation Game winning the top spot on the coveted “Black List” by film executive, Franklin Leonard. Moore, the son of former FLOTUS chief of staff Susan Sher, first novel, The Sherlockian, was a fiction hit in 2010.

The Imitation Game by Moore is “the story of British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual” and is based off the book “Alan Turing: The Enigma.”

For the full story by Deadline Hollywood click here.

Susan Sher, Graham Moore and Valerie Jarrett at a book party celebrating the publication of Moore's "The Sherlockian"

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