First Trailer for Michael Fassbender as Macbeth
Watch the first trailer of Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and Marion Cotillard as his wife and cleanliness enthusiast.
In the first trailer for the new big screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s infamous Scottish play, Macbeth (a theater kid just crossed himself), we are allowed to glimpse at Michael Fassbender as the Bard’s most ambitious of protagonists and of Marion Cotillard as a cleanliness enthusiast.
An ambitious effort, director Justin Kurzel is attempting to film the Scottish play that has bedeviled filmmakers from Orson Welles to Roman Polanski, who in this writer’s estimation have yet to make a good filmic version of the Scottish play. Whereas tragedies like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet have transferred to the screen well in a number of interpretations, this classic of ambition, hubris, and guilt remains damnably unmovable from the stage.
At least until now, perhaps. Because the word out of the Cannes Film Festival is that this one does deliver, not least of all because it stars Fassbender as a Scottish general who dreams of being a king, and Marion Cotillard as the Lady Macbeth, who urges his him to take what is his while over the brow of a sleeping king.
Macbeth also stars David Thewlis as Duncan, Sean Harris as Macduff, Elizabeth Debicki as Lady Macduff, Jack Reynor as Malcolm, and Paddy Considine as Banquo.
Like the wood of Birnam, Macbeth will move into theaters sometime in the fall of 2015.