FIREBRAND | Official Trailer | In theaters June 14

In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her. Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King. Once Henry returns to England, his courtiers convince him to turn his fury on the nation’s radicals, including Katherine’s childhood friend Anne Askew, who becomes one of the scores of people convicted of treason and burned at the stake. Horrified and privately grieving, Katherine finds herself under ever-increasing scrutiny and suspicion. Knowing that even a whisper of scandal might lead to her downfall, Katherine must unleash her own scheme to fight for survival.

[@echolot]

the acting in this trailer alone is better than 75% of the movies that have come out this year

[@Janelane529]

Facts. It's so good, it has me rewatching the trailer over and over. lol

[@notbill08]

Anne of Cleeves marriage was annulled and she became a very wealthy woman. She was also warmly received at court. Catherine Parr had two husbands, then married the sickly obese sociopathic Henry VIII. Husband #4 was Thomas Seymore, who was "grooming" the teenage Elizabeth the First. Catherine Parr died in childbirth at age 36. She may have survived (Henry VIII) but she never thrived.

[@magesalmanac6424]

And her baby was lost to the ages ☹️

[@tracys169]

She was an interesting historical figure who barely received any notice, maybe because like you said, her offspring likely has died and her next husband after the King was a DB and beside grooming Elizabeth, he also was so controlling toward Edward that he got his head chopped off...but I digress. I'm sure based on the trailer, this was about the Anne-Askew period, that almost got Catherine in the chopping block by Henry. I'm always curious what she really told him since he withdrew the application to arrest her. What I heard was, it's due to her telling Henry, she argued religion with him to distract him from his painful leg ulcer, but Idk, is that really the fact? She almost ended up in the chopping block due to religion and her ties to the Protestants. But it's kind of interesting that IIRC, her funeral was the first Protestant funeral for English royalty. And her writings (books that were so popular) were of Protestantism--and she published her books under her own names. Pretty extraordinary back then.

[@heather-ze7mf]

​@tracys169 She did indeed tell Henry that she only argued with him to distract him from his "infirmity" and so he could "correct" her and she could learn from him. Her famous line that I think really saved her was something to the effect of "I am but a woman, with all the imperfections natural to the weaknesses of my sex".

[@heather-ze7mf]

@tracys169 What is a "DB", as you referred to Thomas Seymour as? Dead Beat?

[@CrossroadsDemon]

Clearly someone got their history lessons from the Tudors and Becoming Elizabeth. Have you actually read any book regarding the wives of Henry VIII or Henry himself? Here’s your chance to google a few titles and claim you’ve done so.

[@KCohere33]

I never thought to see a film just about Katherine Parr. I’m intrigued.

[@emptyvoices31]

I read her history and interpretations by different historians, like Alison Weir and Phillipa Gregory. I was thinking of going to England on my next trip to see where she was buried in Sudeley Castle. It is said she helped inspire Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey and was the first author to publish in her own name in England. Her cleverness and turn of phrase in evading her own arrest were also inspired.

[@Noblebird02]

Jude Law is a particular brilliant piece of casting: he was once a young heartthrob, just as Henry was

[@vladdebrancovan7011]

Not fat enough though ;) lol

[@Noblebird02]

@@vladdebrancovan7011 I doubt he has the smell of leg ulcer either

[@vladdebrancovan7011]

@@Noblebird02 that as well lol let alone the flatulence

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

He's still pretty much a hearthrob) This is also not the first time when he had to be ''uglied up'' for the role (Anna Karenina, Anna's husband)

[@Noblebird02]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 true. But he looks the most henryish since Keith Mitchell

[@luciemay916]

This looks brilliant, Jude is such a good choice for Henry, like so many have said, a former heartthrob himself. Kudos to the hair, makeup and costume department, the grey-speckled red beard, the historically accurate dress… Wow… and the way Alicia’s dark eyes pop under those scarce eyebrows, she looks like a Hans Holbein portrait brought to life. Can’t wait!

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Why former? He's still gorgeous.

[@monmothma3358]

​@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 More importantly, he's a good actor. He was always more than a pretty face.

[@heather-ze7mf]

IKR?? Jude is the first Henry that LOOKS the part! And as you said the "historically accurate dress" is exciting to see! I notice that Thomas Seymour especially looks like his portrait with the long beard. Alicia looks to me a bit like Natalie Portman when she played Anne Boleyn.

[@OldBluesChapterandVerse]

Been waiting a year for this trailer. It did not disappoint. Now if we can only get the film released in my neck of the woods (central Wyoming).

[@mickim336]

and in Eastern Idaho

[@virgiliacoriolanus5093]

Same! Live in a small town in Michigan😢😢😢

[@m8trxd]

I'm in Northern Cali... Hows it going, fellow Tudor fans!!!

[@htth613]

A Mother's Love is Like God's Love, It Has No Bounds by Sensus Fidelium.

[@marcbiff2192]

Haven't you got anything better to do then wait for this load of overwrought tripe.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Imagine, Henry had so many wives that his sixth wife was actually named after his first wife who was her godmother.

[@agorapanologia]

Okay, yeah, the acting looks grand, very cool.....but GUYS....LOOK at the CLOTHES. That French HOOD! Flush against her head, black velvet veil, the CHIN STRAP. And her gorgeous partlet, embroidered to boot! I'm watching this for the costuming alone, not gonna lie.

[@giojo6176]

Fr. The dress here are amazing. The french hoods, the brocades, the construction of the garments...i see accuracy for now

[@malinibai1133]

Remember the idiotic little 'French hoods' in 'The Other Boleyn Girl' that looked like dime-store children's headbands? Accuracy in costume is important to those who love historical-themed films

[@magesalmanac6424]

No it isn’t. This is my favorite film genres and I love it when production gets a little “artistic.” So called accuracy only matters to dull purists. The rest of us recognize film is an art and can therefore be artistic.

[@malinibai1133]

@@magesalmanac6424 I can't tell if this post is serious or satire. Either way, pretty funny!

[@faradillaramadhita1782]

So excited for Alicia Vikander and Jude Law in a new film together!

[@MythicMindScape21]

Katherine Parr was the one who outsmarted Henry, she barely escaped arrest. Though it can be said, that Ann of Cleves got the best deal really as she never had to 'sleep' with Henry, was happy at the divorce, became a woman of property and was granted her freedom, where she could no longer be sold to a foreign prince. But Parr who was Catholic, was a day away from arrest and only her cunning saved her.

[@OsirisCreatives]

Saw this at Cannes last year. Glad it’s finally coming out. Jude Law was terrifying as Henry The 8.

[@SheriPhaffArtPaintBrushed]

Finally something worth seeing at the cinema. So tired of the plethora of remakes and sequels of nothing substantial.

[@heather-ze7mf]

YESSSSS!

[@HillorieLe]

And superhero stuff hahaha

[@Alan1701b]

Been waiting a long time for this trailer and it was beyond what I expected and more! My excitement levels for Firebrand have definitely raised higher than before! Very much looking forward to watching!

[@IAmThankfulToday]

This movie has to be the longest tease ever.. Been waiting since Cannes 2023 for it. Vikander plays queens magnificently. Too bad there wasn't a theatrical version of Wolf Hall starring Eva Green as Anne Boleyn.

[@magesalmanac6424]

There have been so many versions of Anne Boleyn. I love that this film gives more attention to the later part of Henry’s story

[@IAmThankfulToday]

@@magesalmanac6424 I mostly certainly agree with the second part of your comment. As for the first, I don’t think I can have too many movies about the Boleyns, provided they are well made, the problem is that the other films make Anne out to be a complete victim and a proto-feminist, instead of a shrewd, tactician and political operator who helped guide her family from minor nobility to the most powerful in the land. She was an incredibly high achiever and quite fascinating. Claire Foye didn’t quite capture all that was in the novels in the miniseries. Just sayin’.

[@heather-ze7mf]

​@@IAmThankfulTodayAnne WAS a victim. She may have been shrewd and ambitious, but she was innocent of the accusations against her and she did not deserve her fate, and THAT makes her a victim.

[@Julieta-bh1di]

Katheryn is the wife of henry i admire the most,she was amazing,strong,graceful and inteligent and she was able to survive with her boy intact,

[@Pynkchola]

June 21st is the US release date!!

[@paddypaddy2834]

Really??

[@samueltriggs]

I hope they give a release date for the UK soon! My most anticipated film of the year

[@fabianagois1021]

I’ve been waiting for so loooong! Jude law is a masterpiece as Henry

[@RedDwarfism]

Catherine Parr the one who lived future generations owe her thanks for the courage she had and her role in raising the young king Edward and Elisabeth the first.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Don’t be silly. Future generations..? And she allowed her pervert husband to hang around 13 year old Elizabeth.

[@heather-ze7mf]

She went wayward though when she married Thomas Boleyn who she was rumored to have aided in his molestation of Elizabeth.

[@hg278]

I mean. Anne of Cleves outlived her and died an absurdly rich woman and was also close to Henry's children. There's a lot of Parr and Cleves erasure.

[@MythicMindScape21]

@@hg278 Cleves got the best deal out of any of Henry's wives for sure, and she didn't even need to 'sleep' with him.

[@boondocks8002]

Love the history movies. Watching queen Elizabeth the golden years now!

[@tsarina24honolulu87]

Check magnificent century.

[@boondocks8002]

@@tsarina24honolulu87 I will !!

[@stonedPELICAN]

She is my 13th generation great aunt!

[@ShadowWorkAustralia]

Cannot wait!

[@CrossroadsDemon]

God I really hope the historical accuracy of this movie is 100% on point.

[@heather-ze7mf]

OMG I can't wait!

[@user-ym3co7hg5c]

My favourite of all his wives. Spoiler alert! She outlived him.

[@jawo8754]

So did Anne of Cleves. She outlived them all. I am not a real fan of Catherine Parr due to the part she played with her 4th husband, Thomas Seymour, sexually assaulting and what we would call “grooming” today, a 14 year old Elizabeth I.

[@user-ym3co7hg5c]

@@jawo8754 You are spot on there! This was an awful time for women so it’s hard for me to judge how much she knew. Anne Of Cleves was really smart in what she did. Take the money and run. God knows what would have happened to her if she hadn’t. I respect that Catherine Parr got herself out of being arrested and beheaded.

[@jawo8754]

@@user-ym3co7hg5c Thank you, and I 100% percent agree that she was a smart woman, when it came to dealing with Henry….Thomas, not so much. I think she was, like many women who favor their husband over their abused children (though Elizabeth was her stepdaughter), blinded by her love or infatuation of Thomas. After all he was the only husband she had a choice in. She was made to marry her first two by her father, and with Henry, she didn’t really have a choice there did she?

[@user-ym3co7hg5c]

@@jawo8754 It’s all so sad. Not only did she help educate Elizabeth she also educated Lady Jane Grey who was executed by Queen Mary.

[@patriciahayes2664]

Sadly, she didn't outlive him for long. She died in September 1548 after giving birth to her daughter Mary Seymour.

[@fellowsauctioneers]

We are so excited for this! We cannot wait to see Alicia Vikander play Katherine Parr!

[@sambhrantabashyal]

Jude Law as King Henry VIII lesss gooo

[@dawni5365]

I’m SO EXCITED FOR THIS

[@runchoide]

oscars alert

[@juliesaunders2031]

He was the archetype for the abusive husband. All the other wife killers since have merely followed him like a spreading stain.

[@sacredlovetarot1971]

From the time Catherine and henry got together until his death He was over 300 pounds, needed a harness to move and had an ulcerated leg, another misconstrued story

[@shazzycromo]

looks good, Inwiah Henry was a bit kore historically accurate, aka about 50 punds heavier and grotesque looking but still, looks awesome!

[@romeostruedude]

Would love a version where she never gets beheaded. Instead it’s Henry. It’s fiction. Let’s give her a wonderful life where originally she was robbed.

[@deedeedan8681]

You're thinking of Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr outlived Henry

[@MythicMindScape21]

Katherine Parr was well on her way to being executed; as she was Catholic and would engage in religious debates with Henry, but when she found out about it, she acted hysterical, and Henry who was always a coward preferring to run from any conflict, tried to console her. She then said, she only debated those issues as it was a way to pass the time. He then later tried to engage her in debates again, but she took his side, and would not be drawn in. When they came to arrest her the next day, he called them scoundrels and sent them away.

[@Robertattila863]

Nagyon jo

[@ladyethyme]

Oh the woman who held Elizabeth the 1st's arms behind her back (while she was barely still a teenager) while her husband cut the woman's dress to ribbons and tried to sexually assault her on more than one occasion? Because she was SO obsessed with him she gave in to anything he wanted? That Katherine Parr? 🙄

[@heather-ze7mf]

IKR

[@Unknown-ze4qi]

IM SO EXCITED 😭🫶

[@deviskitchencorner]

Duh lama bgt nungguin ni film Semoga rilis di bioskop indo..

[@mananimal3644]

Gee. I wonder if they cut them down?

[@monmothma3358]

😂

[@dreamsteddybearsmaster]

Erin playing another great empowered female character called Anne and did they make Jude wear brown contacts? Was the real Henry VIII'th brown eyed?

[@heather-ze7mf]

No, he had blue eyes. I didn't see Jude with brown contacts I thought he was sporting his natural blue eyes.

[@plicketyplunk]

Peasants look remarkably clean and starchy. Nope, I am giving this a pass. The only Henry Vlll that I love is the Brit series with Keith Michell. It was a perfect blend of politics and intrigue and Michell was brilliant in each age of Henry's life. ❤

[@KG-gg5pj]

Yes, Keith Michell was the definitive Henry viii. Never been equalled, yet.

[@HaloFlemz86]

I always thought Katherine parr was to smart of a queen for her own good. She's dealing with a out of control feeble emotional and frantically Tyrant of a husband who's been burned 5 times before and happens to a king. She's had 2 husbands before and has to be a mother figure to the children and future king, she hates the pope and anything Catholic. Hard to believe there was going to be a 7th wife if Henry didn't die early. Then gets stuck with another stupid husband just to die in child birth. And she's still being talked about this day.

[@hg278]

Oh she very much wanted to marry Seymour. Probably didn't realize he was a r*p*st who would abuse her stepdaughter but she had planned to marry him before Henry proposed and was happy to marry him immediately after Henry died and to blame Elizabeth for Thomas Seymour attacking her.

[@techkpd7681]

I wish this would have been about the earlier wives 😢 but I will take what I can get.

[@heather-ze7mf]

There's been so many movies dedicated to them...I'm personally excited to see one dedicated to the later ones. I'd love to see one about Anne of Cleves.

[@user-mo9bu2eq2x]

Джуд Лоу не узнать ❤

[@justonefyx]

Make Anne Boleyn White Again

[@candysleep314]

The speech patterns are glaringly modern. In this trailer, Katharine Parr says to Henry VIII "I'm sure you would come up with something far more creative." This was circa 1545. The adjective 'Creative' came into use in the 1670s, and only in reference to the power of creation. Only in 1848 is it starting to be used in relation to the arts. This word jumped out at me as an anachronism, but incidentally - the phrase 'to come up with' was first used in print with it's current meaning by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. This is as bad as beehive hairdos in Bonanza.

[@KCohere33]

A lot of period pieces have some anachronism to appeal to modern audiences. I don’t see a problem with it. Even books by historians have modernized language.

[@heather-ze7mf]

Well no movie is ever going to please EVERYONE. I find it shoulders above the others with it's historically accurate clothes, and historically correct portrayals of how Henry and Thomas Seymour looked, among other things.

[@ThanmyintOo-xx2dm]

Can't get no scalf here ,, *⛩️⛩️

[@TueSorensen]

I dunno. They speak too fast - it seems too modern. Not at all how the period feels to me.

[@heather-ze7mf]

Are you kidding?? The accurate historical costumes and FINALLY a Henry that actually looks like him... that's a HUGE cut above all the other films portraying Henry with dark hair and glamorous costumes, which they didn't have. And your bothered by the cadence of their speech? No film is going to ever be PERFECT anyway but sorry that just seems so nitpicky.

[@shakespearecowboy47]

She dies from childbirth complications just like his third life. So she fits the pattern

[@christianealshut1123]

No she doesn't; she's his last wife and actually is widowed. She does die relatively young though, at 42.

[@hcgjk]

After he died she married again, to Thomas Seymour, and died because of childbirth complications

[@RoyaltyFandom-]

@@christianealshut1123no at 35/36

[@laerwen]

@@christianealshut1123 She was 36.

[@heather-ze7mf]

​@@christianealshut1123Anne of Cleves died at 42. Katherine Parr died at 36

[@timelordvictorious]

Have to say don’t buy Jude law as Henry.

[@heather-ze7mf]

You're the only one I've seen express that. I think he makes a great Henry... far better than anyone else who's played him!

[@brianhammer5107]

So, they've made Parr a young woman (she wasn't) and Henry a much younger man than he was at the time - oh, boy ... another ahistorical mess from the movie business ... if you want a pretty good approximation of how it really was, watch the 1970 BBC 'Six Wives of Henry VIII' - last episode, "Catherine Parr"

[@causethatshow]

Spoiler, all his wives die in the end hahahahaha

[@boondocks8002]

Yep, unfortunately knowing our history gives the story away ans the ending.

[@charlottescott717]

In that case, it's not Katherine who dies here. Katherine out lived Henry by 18 month.

[@xstlady52]

Actually, Henry divorced #5, Anne of Cleves, and she retired.

[@Varekai0723]

Two of his wives outlived him: Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr.

[@user-uv8bv4dm9f]

well that has ruined it for me!

[@kenna163]

I mean based on true events is right bc this is innacurate af

[@marcbiff2192]

More utter bollox.

[@Eustace__Bagge]

I find this trailer very regressive and problematic... don't you know the future is shemale ?!

[@SapphoForAphrodite]

why do you think it's regressive?

[@laerwen]

Stop inserting fascist problems where there are none, weirdo.

[@hexerei02021]

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[@KCohere33]

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