While I am a Timothee Chalamet stan, I actually don’t get a watchful eye on his future projects. My love for Timothee is rather general – I love his work, but mostly I just like to look at him and hear about him. He’s beautiful and interesting and weird and perfect. So… I had not heard anything about The King before Timothee tweeted out the poster several days ago. Then I found out that Timothee had made some kind of Henry V movie and Joel Edgerton is in it and Robert Pattinson too and Timmy has a bowl cut. Well… now the trailer is out. GIVE THESE BOYS ALL THE OSCARS.
First of all, Timothee is pulling off that haircut a lot better than I would have assumed. Second of all, Joel Edgerton’s Falstaff wig looks like the cheapest of the lot. Third of all, did you SEE Robert Pattinson’s glorious weave? God bless the hair stylists on The King, for they are truly brilliant.
Would you like to know who these people are supposed to be? Timothee is Prince Hal, who turns into King Henry V. Ben Mendelsohn is King Henry IV. Joel Edgerton is Falstaff. Sparkles is the Dauphin of France (the crown prince). Lily-Rose Depp – who is Chalamet’s real-life girlfriend – plays the French princess Catherine of Valois. It will be Pattinson who gets to say one of the most iconic lines in Shakespeare: “tennis balls, my liege.” That is, if they really adapted it from Shakespeare’s Henry V, which… IMDB doesn’t have it credited that way. This script might just be sort of a reworking of the traditional story of Henry V then.
Shall we talk about Chalamet’s accent work? To me, he sounds GREAT. I would be interested in hearing what British Celebitches think. I can always hear when a British actor is trying to do an American accent. Does Chalamet’s accent sound hokey?
Robert Pattinson with that weave! https://t.co/icGEfAcO2p #TheKIng pic.twitter.com/ukryoPJYDP
— Decider (@decider) August 27, 2019
Photos courtesy of Netflix.
he looks exactly like my high school crush who i eventually dated as an adult…and it was a glorious disaster. he was, for good reason, the saddest boy i’ve ever known and looking at timothee chalamet makes my heart break. i do not exaggerate when i say he looks exactly. like. him.
He looks just like my 16 year old grandson. Timothee is beautiful and is a great actor, imo. I keep saying that he deserved that Oscar that Oldman’s make-up stole.
My old boyfriend looked like Jeffrey Dahmer, the thin Dahmer, which broke my heart but in a different way.
Well he’s not American, so that could be a good reason why his accent is passable. No doubt all the Brits will still be butthurt about it though. But another film full of old white men swinging their penii, I mean swords, around at each other? I’ll pass. Oh and if it’s getting dumped onto Netflix, it really must be Shyte.
@ starkiller, It’s not getting “dumped onto Netflix”, it was made for Netflix from the start. You are really a bright ray of sunshine. Have a nice day.
It’s all in the name lol.
Not your cup of tea, which is totally fine.
But it’s not “getting dumped onto Netflix”. It is an original Netflix production. The film was funded by the company and will be released in theaters about a week or two before it is available on the service…. just like Netflix did with Roma, the Oscar Best Picture winner last year.
Haha. Exactly my cup of tea. Can’t wait. To each there own. Finally something other than another comic-based movie or sci-fi. It’s been slim pickings for some of us.
Netflix produces some of the best work around. Nothing’s getting dumped there.
How is he not American? He was born and educated in NYC.
He was born in New York City to an American mother who raised him in New York City. That makes him American. He did spend summers in France with his Dad’s mom and he has dual citizenship with France through his Dad but he’s still American. And being French doesn’t give someone a better fake British accent than being American.
@ Starkiller, where do you think you are, reddit?
Love the photography. Take note, Game of Thrones. That’s how you do night scenes viewers can actually see…
Also love that there was no CGI for the battle scenes. Just a bunch of dudes in heavy, clunky armor – which is how it was back then. I was getting sick of those Lords of the Ring-like, cheap, ugly, unrealistic CGI effects.
Cosign
I’m in it for the signet ring. Man, it looks fantastic. The poster is great.
I agree, the poster is really great and the film looks good!
Looks like Gladiator 2.0 but, man,Timothée is one beautiful man.
I’m a Brit. Pretty flawless accent I’d say. I was trying to listen out for hokeyness but detected none!
Lily Depp is a bit distracting, I think. She looks a bit too modern to my eye and I can’t place why.
Because has had way too much work for someone so young. I also thought the same thing when I saw the trailer yesterday.
Looks like a GOT version of Henry V. The Hollow Crown , with Tommy Hiddles, will allows be my favorite Prince Hal, Henry V.
The Hollow Crow is so so good but really has a completely different, not really a war type of feel to it. I loved it so much but I think this one will be very good as well.
kenneth branagh will always be my Henry V, swoon…….
I loved Branagh as Hal, but I ADORED The Hollow Crown.
I wait for a lot of movies to come out on disc before I see them, but for this I’ll go to the theatre. And for Little Women and Dune. I believe TC is one of the best actors to come along in years.
A man being beheaded – cut… great dramatic effect!
I knew this was being filmed, but somehow I lost sight of it.
After watching the trailer, I’m all in. I like RP’s hair, TC sounds good to this central European’s ears, but I’m not sure about LRD (yet?)
Oh, and I want to see how this fares in comparison to the Beeb’s Hollow Crown.
This looks great. I will take Chalamet and Sparkles together in a movie any day!
Speaking of Brits and Brits adjacent doing American accents, I am always totally fooled. I couldn’t believe it when I found out Linus Roache(Law & Order)and Damon Herriman(Justified)were British and Australian, respectively. They were perfect. I also think Brits do Southern accents better than non Southern American actors. I couldn’t watch Closer because of Kyra’s, imo, horribly overdone, dripping molasses accent.
That’s because the American southern accent is close to what the accent was in the south of England in the 16-1700s when their ancestors left England for the colonies. Diaspora populations keep the homeland accents and food traditions from when they emigrated, while the homeland continues to adapt, evolve and move forward. Italian-American cooking isn’t anything like the food served in Italy today, it’s what southern Italian cooking was like 100 years ago, when the mass immigration from Italy to America took place.
Southern American English is linguistically closer to British English than other American dialects.
When does this come to Netflix, anyone know?
Premiers at the Venice Film Festival next week. Then in some theaters mid October and hits Netflix Nov 1.
I can’t wait to watch it.
Chalamet looks great, I like Michod’s films and I’m so impressed by the career Pattinson has made for himself. Plus… the hair. ❤️🤣
Two weeks after the theatrical premiere, if they stick to their usual patterns.
His accent is excellent but not flawless. Some of the vowels are overplayed but tbh it is hard to fault him.
I would watch anything with Timothee in it after watching Call Me By Your Name. He is so fantastic. He has such an amazing on screen presence and so much talent. It helps that his face is so beautiful. Also love the rest of the cast (save for Depp, she eh at best). I can’t wait to watch this.
Well, since every post about The Revenant was a lament along the line of “who has time for an all white boy drama and their woes?”, I’m fairly surprised by the love for this one. Or not, really.
I knew flavour of the moment would generate ethusiasm no matter what.
I’m neutral about him, liked some of his performances but fail to see the genius so obvious to everybody.
Edgerton can give some great performances(Crossbow and Warrior sold him to me), so maybe I’ll give it a try.
I’ve seen the Branagh version a dozen times (Derek Jacobi, perfection), regularly listen to the Patrick Doyle soundtrack, so tough act to follow.
the patrick doyle soundtrack for much ado about anything is one of my faves! so summery and joyous…. Also agree Branagh’s Henry is my fave. that man was made for shakespeare.
I love all historicals (mostly before 20th century) and can appreciate any interpretation. I have my favorite Henrys and those in court during reigns. Middle Ages fascinate me. So dark and brutal, unrelenting and abysmal. If you get lost in imagination, you can almost smell the stench increase its intensity traveling into villages and towns.
The fact that Timothee looks good with the bowl cut is….something. Yeah I’m watching this!
I can’t wait. And RP looks hotter to me with every passing year
Timothee’s accent sounds fine to my American ears but I’m not a fan of Lily Rose’s French accent in English. If she’s anything like me (I am also French-American and speak fluent French and actually I speak way better than Timothee does and I have never lived in France like him which mildly amuses me) I cannot pull off a convincing French accent in English. I don’t know why but I can’t, it comes out sounding like such a stereotype and so does hers.
I can however do an American accent speaking French, I dunno it’s just so easy to do haha. I used to imitate this administrator at my bilingual French-American school who was American and had a strong accent when she spoke French. It used to make my mom die of laughter because it kind of sounded like her American accent in French but very pronounced.
He’s such a good actor he has that combination of vulnerability and charisma that all the best actors have.
He was amazing in Call me By Your Name. He is a super talented young man and I heard he’s really sweet too.
I hate to say it but I’ve yet to see a Netflix original that I enjoyed. There’s always something off about them – like they approve the first draft of every script and rush into production. After the the snooze that was Chris Pine’s Robert the Bruce movie last year, I’ll probably skip this one.
Agreed. I think they do amazing series but I’m yet to see a Netflix original movie that I’ve enjoyed
I can´t stand him. I don’t think he is a good actor. He has to grow up and work with good directors. In movies and in theatre.