Timothée Chalamet will be crowned as king in the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, the latest film by Australian director David Michôd, which will carry an ominous title: The King. Premiering world-wide out of competition at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, The King will feature an impressive ensemble that will include Robert Pattinson, as Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, Lily-Rose Depp as Catherine of Valois and Joel Edgerton as one of the most beloved Shakespearean characters, Falstaff. This is a Netflix backed film in a festival, proving once again how far along the streaming platform has come in terms of both business and prestige.
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This film’s script was written by Michôd and Joel Edgerton and will have Chalamet star as Prince Hal, a rebellious character who hangs out with a bunch of do-no-goods, but who must eventually live up to the country’s expectations, rise up as Henry V and handle the responsibilities of being a king.
Chalamet will be joining the few, the happy few, like of Sir Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Brannagh and Tom Hiddleston, a band of brothers, if you will that have famously interpreted Henry V. Robert Pattinson, on the other hand, is gaining momentum as an actor for mature roles, in an attempt to rid of his teenage star fame following years of (reluctantly?) playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga. Pattinson will have another film premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for the Barbarians, which will compete for the Golden Lion.
@robert_pattinson_nlMichôd will be joining a long list of directors like, you guessed it, Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Brannagh. The King, however, will follow Orson Welles’s approach in combining two or more Shakespeare plays that tell the complete story of Henry V. It’s still unclear of whether or not the script written by Michôd and Edgerton will use Shakespeare’s language or do away with it altogether, choosing to “modernize” the text. In which case, the film could be more of a period piece or a historical drama, vía Shakespeare. Whatever the case, it places Chalamet as an Oscar hopeful, specially after his role in Little Women, and having earned a nomination for “Call Me By Your Name”. Much like Prince Hal, Chalamet seems to be full of surprises.
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