A quick search on the site and outside of the Venice Film Festival announcement I hadn’t mentioned director Michael Almereyda‘s Cymbeline in the past and didn’t even notice it at the time of the announcement. The film, as it turns out, is Almereyda’s latest attempt at tweaking the work of Shakespeare and he’s back with Ethan Hawke who starred in his 2000 adaptation Hamlet along with several other notable actors including Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson and Anton Yelchin.
The film, which Almereyda adapted from Shakespeare’s text depicts an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled America and as the movie is set to have its premiere in Venice this week before Lionsgate brings it to theaters in 2015 we get the first trailer and clip.
I’ve included everything you need below along with the film’s official synopsis.
King Cymbeline, leader of the Briton Motorcycle Club, clashes with the corrupt Roman Police while his radiant but disobedient daughter Imogen fends off assaults on her honor and her life. Cymbeline’s wife and her son aspire to take over the king’s empire, and Imogen’s marriage to Posthumus is undermined by sinister interference from Iachimo, a malevolent stranger. Shakespeare’s timeless themes are love and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness, death and renewal.
