I feel a little like I went to sleep and woke up to a world where Timothée Chalamet is the biggest name in Hollywood. Since winning acclaim for his role in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, the 23-year-old Chalamet has been on the rise, winning the lead role in the upcoming Dune movie (possibly Dune saga, if Warner Bros. has its way) and headlining the splashy Netflix movie The King, which is based on William Shakespeare’s plays about King Henry V…but without any of the Shakespeare-speak. That can be a good or a bad thing depending on who you are.
Netflix dropped the trailer for The King today. Check it out:
“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,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “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 aging alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel Edgerton).”
It looks like the movie will mash together parts of Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V — Shakespeare wrote a lot about this period. who’s betting we’ll see the famous St. Crispin’s Day speech?
But y’know, without the ye olde-y English?
I’m still not sure how I feel about that. I mean, I get taking out the Shakespearian dialogue if you’re going to take one of his plays and set it in a different time period, like turning The Taming of the Shrew into10 Things I Hate About You. But if you’re sticking to the original time period why not just adapt the play as is?
Whatever. The King will be out on Netflix and in select theaters this fall.
Also in trailers, FX released a sneak peek at the next season of American Horror Story, which is set in 1984 and features a serial killer terrorizing kids at a summer camp.
The horror starts September 18.
Also, can Apple interest you in an edgy take on the life of Emily Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld as the famed poet?
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