Netflix drops trailer for all-star movie The King

With a cast including Timothee Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson, this Netflix movie is stirring up excitement.

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming all-star historical epic, The King.

Directed by Australian David Michod from a script by Michod and Joel Edgerton, The King stars Timothee Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris (Mission Impossible: Fallout), Lily-Rose Depp (A Faithful Man) and Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace) alongside Edgerton and Ben Mendelsohn.

The movie is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry plays and follows a rogue young King Henry V who must take the throne upon his father’s death and contend with all the backstabbing, intrigue and plotting that comes with rule.

Just to drive the “trust no one” point home, the trailer features a line from Falstaff (Edgerton) in which he says, “A king has no friends, only followers and foes”.

Michod, who is best known for his lauded 2010 film Animal Kingdom, and Edgerton wrote the screenplay in 2013. Edgerton and Mendelsohn both starred in Animal Kingdom, which was later adapted as a US TV series.

Chalamet joined the cast in 2018 right in the midst of a hot streak after he was Oscar-nominated for his performance in Call Me By Your Name. Chalamet also has coming out soon Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women, in which he stars as Laurie, and has finished filming on Denis Villeneuve’s (Arrival, Incendies, Blade Runner 2049) Dune remake.

He caused a stir on social media when he turned up at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, while promoting Beautiful Boy, with the unflattering bowl haircut required by The King’s production.

We hope the bowl cut was worth it

The King is Michod’s second collaboration with Netflix and Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B, which also worked on his previous film, War Machine.

Michod has previously worked with Pattinson, who starred in Michod’s Animal Kingdom follow-up, The Rover.

The King will premiere at the Venice Film Festival early next month. Despite its Australian connections, The King will not have a theatrical release locally, and will drop on Netflix on November 1.

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Under pressure from some of its more high-profile filmmakers and to qualify for awards such as the Oscars, Netflix has capitulated to having a short, limited theatrical release on some of its films before their streaming release.

For example, The King will play in US cinemas for three weeks before it hits Netflix.

Overnight, Netflix also revealed US theatrical and global streaming release dates for a raft of its original films including Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat starring Meryl Streep (streaming: October 18), Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (streaming: November 27), Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson (streaming: December 6), Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins (streaming: December 20) and Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird starring Alicia Vikander (December 15).

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