‘As a prince I spent my days drinking, clowning. Now I find myself the king.’ So speaks the unprepared King Henry V in the new trailer for Netflix’s The King.
Now he has a lot to learn – and must learn it on the job.
The King premieres on Netflix on November 1st.
The King
Release Date: November 1, 2019
Directed By: David Michôd
Written By: David Michôd and Joel Edgerton
Produced By: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Liz Watts, David Michôd and Joel Edgerton
Director of Photography: Adam Arkapaw
Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Editor: Peter Sciberras
Costume Designer: Jane Petrie
Music By: Nicholas Britell
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie with Robert Pattinson and Ben Mendelsohn
Synopsis:
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). Directed by David Michôd and co-written by Michôd and Edgerton, THE KING co-stars Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Pattinson, and Lily-Rose Depp.
You can stream The King here.