On Thursday evening in London’s Leicester Square, the red carpet was rolled out in true royal style ready for The King UK premiere at the American Airlines Gala at the London Film Festival.
The King himself, Timothée Chalamet was in attendance at the event donning a rather jazzy, sequin hoodie. He was joined on the red carpet by his fellow co-stars Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomas McKenzie and the film’s director David Michôd. The cast members covered limited parts of the waiting media line and opted instead to sign autographs and pose for selfies with the waiting fans. You can take a look at The King UK premiere red carpet interviews in the video players below:
David Michôd (Director)
Timothée Chalamet
Joel Edgerton
Thomasin McKenzie
Nick Britell (Composer)
Hal (Timothée Chalamet), wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life — including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel Edgerton).
The film has been directed by David Michôd, who is on double duty for this one as he has also co-written the script with Edgerton.
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THE KING co-stars Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Pattinson, and Lily-Rose Depp.
In a statement, Director David Michôd said: “Before Joel Edgerton and I embarked on a retelling of the story of Henry V, I never thought I’d find myself one day making a medieval movie. Swords and horses were never my thing. But the more we talked and the deeper I researched, the more excited I was by the idea of rendering the Middle Ages – its dirt, its brutality, its precariousness of life and death, its sheer other-worldliness – in a way that felt raw and human. I wanted the kind of medieval movie I might make – one devoid of the nationalist bombast normally associated with the story of Henry V and one that might illuminate the ways in which war can emerge from the swamp of power and paranoia, greed and hubris, fear and family.”
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THE KING will launch in select UK cinemas and on Netflix this Autumn.
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