First Clips Of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Macbeth

No, I'm NOT calling it "The Scottish Film."

Teresa Jusino

Published: May 22, 2015 01:08 pm

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OMG, Shakespeare nerds – get excited! Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender as the titular king and Marion Cotillard as his power-hungry queen premiered at Cannes, and now they’ve released two teensy clips to whet our appetites for more medieval Scottish scheming.

Macbeth’s coronation:

And check out this awesome (if stylistically strange) battle scene:

While I’m sorry we don’t really get to see any quality Lady Macbeth action in these clips, I love the gritty, understated look of the film, and I know Fassbender is gonna kill this part. Macbeth doesn’t have a release date yet, or a distributor for that matter, but it will. Oh, it will.

(via Indiewire)

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Teresa Jusino

Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.