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Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily-Rose Depp join The King as filming begins

June 1, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Netflix has announced that Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Ben Mendelsohn  (Ready Player One) and Lily-Rose Depp (Yoga Hosers) have joined the cast of director David Michod’s latest project The King, which has now started production in the UK.

Based on Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and V and scripted by Michod and Joel Edgerton, The King follows a young, disgraced prince, Hal, who inherits the crown and must learn what it means to be a king, guided by his one true friend, Falstaff.

Edgerton will be playing Falstaf, with Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) as Hal, Pattinson as The Duaphin, Mendelsohn as King Henry IV, Depp as Princess Catherine, Sean Harris (Macbeth) as William, Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) as Hotspur and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace) as Philippa.

The King is set to arrive on Netflix in 2019.

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Mendelsohn, David Michod, joel edgerton, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, The King, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Timothee Chalamet, Tom Glynn-Carney

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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