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    HBO's 'Brexit' movie plays right into today's headlines

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2019 5 minutes

    The future of Brexit is in doubt, but "Brexit" the movie is already here.

    Days after the House of Commons rejected the deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May by a historic margin, sending Britain further into political chaos, comes "Brexit," an HBO film starring Benedict Cumberbatch about the 2016 referendum in which voters decided to leave the European Union.

    The film, which airs Saturday, centers not on well-known figures like May, her predecessor David Cameron or prominent Brexit supporter Boris Johnson, but on Dominic Cummings (Cumberbatch), who as the director of the successful Vote Leave campaign used data to identify and target millions of inactive voters with the simple message "take back control" and ultimately scored one of the greatest political upsets in recent memory - one that many see as foreshadowing President Trump's triumph a few months

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