Director Tom Hooper‘s The King’s Speech made a huge splash earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the coveted People’s Choice Award. Critics and audiences alike have fawned over early screenings (you can read Jordan’s TIFF review here), and general audiences can see the movie for themselves when it goes into limited release on Nov. 26. Until then, the poster below will have to keep people interested.
The King’s Speech stars Colin Firth as King George IV, who was King of England during WWII. King George was an uncontrollable stutterer, and after delivers an embarrassing speech at the British Empire Exhibition in 1925. With the help of his wife, the Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and an unconventional speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush), he resolves to overcome his impediment.
This film is already generating some pretty serious Oscar buzz. It won the same TIFF award as Slumdog Millionaire, after all. We’ll just have to wait until the year winds to a close to find out if lighting strikes the prize again.
What do you think of the poster?