We half expected to see Mike Leigh’s Peterloo at this year’s Cannes Film festival back in May, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. The film finally heads to cinemas in November, and today we get our first look at it via a first trailer. It looks absolutely epic. Check out the first, minute-long Peterloo movie trailer below.
Peterloo, directed by Mike Leigh
Peterloo movie trailer lands. Mike Leigh directs an epic
Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform.
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The first Peterloo trailer is actually more of a teaser as it doesn’t give us a great deal to see, but what do see is the huge scale of it.
Here’s the official synopsis:
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.
Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell, Philip Jackson, Vincent Franklin, Karl Johnson, and Tim McInnerny are amongst the impressive cast.
The film comes to screens from eOne and Amazon Studios and lands on screens this November. Check out the first trailer below.
