Scotland in the Middle Ages. After a victorious battle, the unstoppable rise of power-hungry army commander Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) begins. Seduced by a mysterious prophecy and driven by his ambitious wife (Marion Cotillard), Macbeth assassinates his king Duncan (David Thewlis) to ascend the throne of Scotland himself. He even has his loyal friend and confidant Banquo (Paddy Considine) eliminated. But the more brutal his reign of terror becomes, the more Macbeth and his wife are plagued by the demons of their guilt. When Duncan's son Malcolm (Jack Reynor) teams up with Macbeth's greatest adversary Macduff (Sean Harris) and gathers an army against the tyrant, the tide turns.
The regicide and his power-hungry wife: few works have fascinated for centuries as much as Shakespeare's tragedy of the rise and fall of Macbeth. From the producers of the worldwide box-office hit The King's Speech comes an opulent and dark new film adaptation in which Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender (X-Men, Shame) and Oscar winner Marion Cotillard (The Taste of Rust and Bone, La vie en rose) breathtakingly reinterpret arguably the most famous pair of tyrants in world literature. Some of Britain's most renowned actors shine in the other roles: David Thewlis (Harry Potter series) as Duncan, Paddy Considine (Pride) as Banquo, Jack Reynor (Transformers 4 - Era of Doom) as Malcolm and Sean Harris (Prometheus - Dark Signs) as Macbeth's ultimate antagonist Macduff. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel, who first made a splash in 2011 with his film The Murders of Snowtown and will film Assassin's Creed in 2015.
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