Netflix has shared the new official and final trailer for their upcoming movie adaptation The King, which you can take a look at in the video player below:
In the trailer, we get a better look at Academy Award-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) as King Henry V.
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. You can take a look at their red carpet interviews from this year’s London Film Festival using the link below:
Related: LFF 2019: The King UK Premiere Red Carpet Interviews
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 is in select UK cinemas now and on Netflix from 1st November.
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