Check out the first official trailer of King Lear, the upcoming BBC drama movie directed by Richard Eyre based on Shakespeare’s timeless play:

KING LEARPlot synopsis:
“An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.”

What happened to Odin’s eye patch?

Anyway, the film cast:
– Anthony Hopkins as Lear;
– Emma Thompson as Goneril;
– Emily Watson as Regan;
– Florence Pugh as Cordelia;
– Jim Broadbent as Earl of Gloucester;
– Andrew Scott as Edgar;
– John Macmillan as Edmund;
– Jim Carter as Earl of Kent;
– Christopher Eccleston as Oswald;
– Tobias Menzies as Duke of Cornwall;
– Anthony Calf as Duke of Albany;
– and Karl Johnson as Fool.

Release date: May 28, 2018.
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