The year is barely upon us, and there’s another medieval movie thundering over the horizon. It’s called ‘Black Death’. No prizes for guessing which fourteenth-century plague it concerns. Christopher Smith directs. Sean Bean stars as Ulric, a hardbitten knight who encounters a necromancer in a swamp. Tim McInnerny gets a credit as a character called ‘Hob’. For some reason everyone else has Anglo-Saxon names. I can’t find a trailer at present, but you can check out an image gallery here.
My suspicion, alas, is that it will be pestilential cack. But hope springs eternal. The press screening is coming up in about 10 days, so I will be able to post a full review in due course.
Update: It’s released on 26 February. Sorry, should have mentioned that
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