Richard III
I can smile, and murder while I smile
Overview
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
- Revenue
- $2,748,518
- Production
- Mayfair Entertainment International, British Screen, United Artists, First Look Pictures, Bayly/Paré Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Ian McKellen
Richard III
Annette Bening
Queen Elizabeth
Jim Broadbent
The Duke of Buckingham
Robert Downey Jr.
Earl Rivers
Kristin Scott Thomas
Lady Anne
Adrian Dunbar
James Tyrrell
Maggie Smith
Duchess of York
Tim McInnerny
William Catesby
Edward Hardwicke
Lord Stanley
Nigel Hawthorne
The Duke of Clarence
Jim Carter
Lord Hastings
Dominic West
The Earl of Richmond
John Wood
King Edward IV
Roger Hammond
Archbishop Thomas
Bill Paterson
Sir Richard Ratcliffe
Donald Sumpter
Brackenbury
Michael Elphick
2nd Murderer
Kate Steavenson-Payne
Princess Elizabeth
James Dreyfus
1st Subaltern
Christopher Bowen
Prince Edward
Crew
- Director
- Richard Loncraine
- Writers
- Ian McKellen,Richard Loncraine
- Cinematography
- Peter Biziou
- Composer
- Trevor Jones
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August 27, 2022
Co-writers Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine (who also directs) set their Richard III in 1930s Britain, and make the infamous hunchback a fascist warmonger plotting to usurp the throne. Today's English monarchy is, at best, nominal, but even way back in the 1930s there wasn't much to be gained by usurping it. Then again, the film takes place in an alternate reality where the War of the Roses occurs 450 years after the true historical conflict did. I don’t mind so much that royalty has endure…