Anthony Hopkins is more active than ever at 86 years old. After appearing in Winton’s Children and Freud’s Last Session, which premieres on June 7 after passing through the BCN Film Fest, the Oscar-winning British actor will play the famous German composer Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) in The King of Covent Garden, a film directed by Andrew Levitas focused on how the author created his masterpiece The Messiah.
The film has been described as “a powerfully majestic celebration of the genius who broke all the rules to create an anthem that inspired the popular imagination of global audiences.” Embankment Films is handling global pre-sales and will present it to buyers at the Cannes Film Market. The film is scheduled to be released in late fall 2025.
It is the umpteenth time that Hopkins gets into the shoes of a real character after being Oliver Stone’s Nixon; Adolf Hitler in The Bunker, Pope Benedict XVI himself in The Two Popes, Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Last Session or the stockbroker Nicholas “Nicky” Winton in Winton’s Children. According to Levitas, the script “is populated with passionate real-life experiences in all their color, creating a fascinating human story with surprising contemporary relevance, universal human connectivity and spiritual upliftment.”
On the other hand, the American Kristen Stewart, who has just released the bloody revenge thriller Blood on the Lips, will return to vampire cinema after becoming known with the Twilight saga. This is a new project in which she will be accompanied by Oscar Isaac and is titled Flesh of the Gods, directed by Panos Cosmatos, the Italian director responsible for films such as ‘Mandy’, starring Nicolas Cage.
Flesh of the Gods is set in the brilliant Los Angeles of the 80s, where the married couple Raoul (Oscar Isaac) and Alex (Kristen Stewart) descend from their luxurious skyscraper every night and enter the electric nightlife of the city. When they cross paths with a mysterious and enigmatic figure known as ‘Nameless’ and his clique of inveterate partygoers, the couple finds themselves seduced by a glamorous and surreal world of hedonism, excitement and violence,” reads the film’s synopsis. “Propulsive and hypnotic at the same time, the film will take you on a downhill journey into the glittering heart of hell,” Cosmatos described it in statements to The Hollywood Reporter.
