Something WICKED HOT this way comes! Michael Fassbender stars in this “visceral and visually breath-taking retelling of the classic tale about an ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his wife.” Marion Cotillard is the ruthless and scheming Lady MacBeth who goads her husband into killing the king. Of course you know what happens next — their drive for power eats away at them and things go tragically wrong. What we see of the movie here is dark, sexy, and intense, like Game of Thrones with Shakespearean dialogue. And maybe JUST MAYBE we’ll see some of that Thane of Cawdor peen!
Says Time:
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, is no modern Shakespearean interpretation a la the Ethan Hawke Hamlet, but the new trailer proves how it may be radical in its own right.
The trailer has Shakespeare’s language spoken in almost-whispers, yet the starkly brutal imagery takes center stage. Mist and fire abounds, though this movie is not being sold with “double, double toil and trouble” and witches.
Kurzel’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s ambitious murderer has already received praise following its premiere at Cannes. The Guardian noted that “this is not the traditional stage Macbeth, crammed into claustrophobic interior spaces. It is conceived in (and almost dwarfed by) a vast Scottish plain, like Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth.” The Telegraph wrote that Fassbender and Cotillard give “cosmically powerful performances,” while Variety called the movie “fearsomely visceral and impeccably performed.”
The movie is scheduled for an October release in the U.K.
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