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| Ed Skrein is the prince's host in Britain |
Fresh photos from some new period set projects coming up in the future for you today, people, beginning with the ones from
BORN A KING a period set drama from director
Agusti Villaronga with
Ed Skrein in the lead role!
BORN A KINGan extraordinary real life story set in 1919, is a coming of age story about Faisal, a 14 year old teenage Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country. In London he must negotiate with some of the pre-
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| Prince Faisal later on became King of Arabia in the 1960s! |
eminent figures of the age, including Lord Curzon (
Kenneth Cranham) and Winston Churchill (
Celyn Jones), while forming a friendship with Princess
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| The budget of the movie was close to $20 million! |
Mary who helps guide him through the corridors of power.
Laurence Fox plays Laurence of Arabia,
Lewis Reeves is Prince of Wales, while lovely
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| Hermione Corfield plays Princess Mary in the movie. |
Hermione Corfield is Princess Mary. You can also check out the first clip from the movie below set at a state dinner at the British court.
Another historical drama waiting to hit the festivals and cinemas sometime this year is
Mike Leigh's
PETERLOO which charts the 1819 Peterloo
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| This is Leigh's first movie after 2014 drama Mr Turner |
Massacre when British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester!
Maxine Peake, our dearest
Nico Mirallegro and
Rory Kinnear lead the cast!
