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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The King
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Film Details - Netflix ; Plan B Entertainment ; Porchlight Films ; Blue Tongue Films ; Pioneer Stilking Films ; Yoki , 2019

Producers:

Joel Edgerton, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Michôd, Brad Pitt, and Liz Watts (producers).
Ildiko Kemeny, David Minkowski, and Anita Overland (co-producers).

Production Companies:

Netflix.
Plan B Entertainment.
Porchlight Films.
Blue Tongue Films.
Pioneer Stilking Films.
Yoki.

Director of Photography:

Adam Arkapaw.

Editors:

Peter Sciberras.

Production Designers:

Fiona Crombie.

Composer:

Nicholas Britell.

Cast:

Including Robert Pattinson (The Dauphin of France), Timothée Chalamet (King Henry V of England ['Hal']), Ben Mendelsohn (Henry IV), Joel Edgerton (Sir John Falstaff), Thomasin McKenzie (Philippa), Lily-Rose Depp (Catherine), Sean Harris (William), Dean-Charles Chapman (Thomas of Lancaster), Tara Fitzgerald (Hooper), Tom Glynn-Carney (Hotspur), Ivan Kaye (Lord Scrope), Andrew Havill (Archbishop of Canterbury), Edward Ashley (Cambridge), Steven Elder (Dorset), Tom Lawrence (Westmorland), and Thibault de Montalembert (King Charles VI of France).

Release Dates:

Premiered 2 September 2019 (Venice Film Festival).

Cinema release: 11 October 2019 (USA: limited).

Netflix release: 1 November 2019 (multiple countries, including Australia).


Location:

  • Filmed in Szilvásvárad, Komarom, and Páty in Hungary, and in Lincolnshire (including Lincoln Cathedral) in England.

Awards:

  • AACTA Award, Best Direction (nominated), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Actor (nominated), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Supporting Actor (winner), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Cinematography (winner), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Editing (nominated), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Sound (nominated), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Production Design (winner), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Costume Design (winner), 2019.
  • AACTA Award, Best Hair and Makeup (nominated), 2019.
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Editor (nominated), 2019.
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Actor (Supporting Role) (winner), 2019.
Subjects:
Settings:
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    England,
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    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • c
    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
Influenced by:
Henry V
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