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The Lion in Winter by James Goldman5/9/2023 Reluctantly facing his own mortality, the king must now grapple with the matter of succession. Both Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn garnered Oscar nominations (with the latter winning) for the original, which might explain why the principals couldn’t resist a trip to Hungary and Slovakia to re-shoot Goldman’s script under director Andrei Konchalovsky.Īnyone whose familiarity with the period is derived from the Robin Hood tales will be in for a rude awakening upon absorbing this zesty look at King Henry II (Stewart) his jailed queen, Eleanor of Aquitane (Close) and their three despicable sons, including the crusading Richard the Lionheart and the dolt who would in future years usurp his throne, John.Īging but “still a marvel of a man,” as Eleanor calls him, Henry has survived many attempts to dethrone him - among them a civil war led by his wife and two elder sons a decade earlier, chronicled in a previously unseen prologue.
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