Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England.
Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner Emma Thompson stars as his oldest daughter Goneril.
Anthony Hopkins (The Dresser, Nixon, Silence Of The Lambs) and Emma Thompson (The Children Act, The Remains Of The Day, Sense And Sensibility) reunite in their third collaboration and lead an all-star cast for BBC Two‘s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, adapted and directed by BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre (The Dresser, Notes on a Scandal).
Principal photography begins this month. King Lear is commissioned by the BBC and will premiere on BBC Two in the UK in 2018.