By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Michelle Williams and Jude Law are teaming up for “Firebrand”, a psychological horror story set within the bloody English Tudor courtroom.
The movie, directed by Karim Ainouz, will give attention to Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and closing spouse of Henry VIII, and the one one to keep away from banishment or dying.
While Williams will essay the function of Catherine, Law will play Henry VIII, her infamous husband.
Ainouz, recognized for “The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao”, will direct the movie from a script by “Killing Eve” writers Jessica Ashworth and Henrietta Ashworth.
According to Deadline, “Firebrand” is informed by means of Catherine’s singular point-of-view of the psychological horror of residing with a monster — and the exceptional will to not solely survive, however thrive.
The official logline of the movie reads: “By the time younger Catherine Parr (Williams) married the deteriorating, more and more despotic King Henry VIII (Law), she had no assurances of a contented marriage; the truth is, she had no assurances of surviving this marriage in any respect.
Of her predecessors, two had been thrown out, one died in childbirth and two had been beheaded.
While Catherine tried to maintain her head about her to navigate the politics of her place, she introduced a secret agenda.
“She was Protestant, believed it her duty to marry Henry, for it would be the only position in which she could convert him — and the kingdom — from his pro-Catholic position. That faith was tested when the church resisted granting his divorce from his first wife so he could marry Anne Boleyn, who would later be beheaded. With arrests, torture, and executions of Protestants on the rise, Catherine invited a dangerous game that would leave one of them dead before long.”
Ainouz, the Brazilian-born filmmaker, describes Parr as a “ferociously brilliant, enlightened, and emancipated woman whom I am inspired by deeply, a woman who has been largely disregarded, or certainly under-represented in English Tudor history”.
While a lot is understood about Henry VIII’s tyrannical reign, the King himself, and about those that perished at his fingers, the director mentioned “Firebrand” will provide a modernistic have a look at the basic trope of the lady trapped in a citadel with a monster.
“Henry was a most interesting person, but he was uber-violent, which was in tune with the times. Jude will not play him as the cliched fat man eating the turkey leg. Jude got how complex this guy was, not a loveable character but as a most powerful man of his time. And Michelle immediately came to mind. I so admire her choices, going back to Brokeback Mountain, and there is something fascinating about her each time I rediscover her in a performance,” Ainouz mentioned about his lead forged.
Williams was lately seen in “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and Law will reprise his function of Albus Dumbledore in “The Secrets of Dumbledore”, the third chapter within the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise from J Okay Rowling’s “Harry Potter” universe.
