While “War Machine” was chalked up as yet another Netflix original production that fizzled out, don’t weep for David Michôd. Whatever went down on that movie hasn’t affected his relationship with them or Brad Pitt‘s Plan B one bit, as he’s gearing up another movie for the companies starring one of the hottest rising talents in Hollywood.
Deadline reports that “Call Me By Your Name” and “Lady Bird” star Timothée Chalamet has signed up to star in “The King.” Co-written by Joel Edgerton and Michôd, who will also direct, the film is an adaptation of two classic works by Shakespeare, with Chalamet slated to play the young king, Henry V. This project has been percolating for a while, a couple years back, Edgerton shared some of the details of what he was cooking up.
“We’ve written ‘Henry IV’ and ‘Henry V’ as a period film, but with our own dialogue. For lack of a better word, [it’s] ‘Game Of Thrones’ meets Shakespeare only in that, you can watch ‘Game Of Thrones’ and understand what’s going on,” he said in 2016. “I feel like, with complete deference to Shakespeare, there is something that happens when even the most intelligent people watch Shakespeare. They feel stupid, because he does the kind of roundabout version of telling you simple things. So, we just wanted to let the audience understand exactly what’s going on, and not just some people, but everybody.”
So, cinematic Cliff’s Notes or the epic story of Henry V we’ve always wanted? We’ll soon find out. Netflix and Plan B are putting it all together and I presume this will be one to keep an eye out for in 2019.