Though he looks like he just stepped off the set of Stranger Things with that hair, Timothée Chalamet is still going to demand your loyalty in the first teaser for director David Michôd's latest, The King.
Co-written by Michôd and regular collaborator Joel Edgerton, this is the story of Hal (Chalamet), wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, who has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life — including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the aging alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Edgerton).
Michôd has stacked his latest with a great cast that also includes Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Pattinson, Lily-Rose Depp and Sean Harris, who will probably be plotting against him. Where's Ethan Hunt when he's needed? Probably hanging off the space shuttle or something.
The King is headed for a limited cinema release and to Netflix this autumn.