Angrezi Medium, The French Dispatch, Hunters, Altered Carbon season 2, Zindagi inShort: Trailers this week

This week, cinegoers were blessed with two trailers of much-awaited historical dramas, both led by Dev Patel. While The Personal History of David Copperfield has already picked up an array of awards since its world premiere, with five British Independent Film Awards, The Green Knight will be a rather bleak take on the Arthurian legend of the same name.

Also from Hollywood, Wes Anderson’s 10th directorial feature The French Dispatch brings an ensemble with all of Anderson-quirks such as colourful palettes, aesthetically well-aligned shots, and eccentric characters in tow.

Check out all the trailers here

Bollywood

Angrezi Medium

Angrezi Medium will see Irrfan Khan as a simple, doting father, who goes to lengths in order to fulfill his daughter Taru's (Radhika Madan) wishes, who wants to pursue her higher studies in the UK. The film charts the journey of Irrfan's character to the British land in order to ensure his daughter's dreams turn into reality. Directed by Homi Adajania, other cast members include Dimple Kapadia, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Pankaj Tripathi, Deepak Dobriyal, Ranvir Shorey, and Kiku Sharda. Angrezi Medium is slated to release on 13 March. Hollywood The Green Knight

The Green Knight is an adaptation of the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dev Patel depicts Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and Knight of the Round Table, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight. David Lowery's epic take on the classic Arthurian legend also features Joel Edgerton, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, and Alicia Vikander.

The Green Knight is scheduled to hit theatres on 29 May.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

The Personal History of David Copperfield is Searchlight's comedy drama penned and directed by Armando Iannucci. The film is be a Victorian take on the Charles Dickens novel, and also features Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. The French Dispatch

Set in a fictional French city in the 1960s, Anderson's latest venture centers on a The New Yorker-inspired magazine, where Bill Murray plays Arthur Howitzer Jr, the curmudgeonly editor of 'The French Dispatch.' According to the official description, the film is a "love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city and brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch magazine.”

With a stellar cast such as Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, and Timothée Chalamet, The French Dispatch is slated to release on 24 July.

Streaming

Zindagi inShort

Gunnet Monga's slice-of life drama is a seven-part anthology, which explores themes of broken marriages, infidelity, and nascent love. Neena Gupta, Nakuul Mehta Swaroop Sampat, Shishir Sharma, Aisha Ahmed, Rima Kallingal, Isha Talwar, and Manjot Singh are part of the cast. An association of Sikhya Entertainment and Flipkart Video, the short films are helmed by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Punarvasu Naik, Vijayeta Kumar, Rakesh Sain, Gautam Govind Sharma, Smrutika Panigrahi, and Vinay Chhawal. Zindagi inShort will stream on Flipkart's main app from this Wednesday, 19 February. Run

HBO unveiled the official trailer of upcoming comedy-thriller, Run, executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve, and Crashing) and Vicky Jones on Monday. The series is lead by Domhnall Gleeson (About Time, Ex Machina and Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker), and Emmy-winning actress Merritt Wever (Into the Wild and Marriage Story). Run is slated to premiere on HBO on 12 April.

Altered Carbon Season 2

Anthony Mackie takes over the action in the second instalment of Netflix's dsytopian drama Altered Carbon. The season 2 trailer shows Takeshi Kovacs in a new sleeve of Mackie, trying to unearth the mystery surrounding Kovacs' long-lost love, the presumed dead Quellcrist Falconer (Renee Elise Goldsberry).

The official synopsis released alongside the trailer reads, "When a job brings Takeshi Kovacs back to Harlan's World in a new sleeve, he finds the planet at war — and his long-lost love lurking in the shadows."

Altered Carbon season 2 is scheduled to launch on Netflix on 27 February.

Hunters

Amazon Prime Video Original show follows a "diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the US.”

The new trailer for Hunters offers a glimpse into the R-rated world, as Pacino's Meyer Offerman goes on a bloody quest to exact his "righteous revenge" on the Nazis, rife with profanities and grizzly Nazi killing.

The show is set to release this Friday on 21 February on Amazon Prime Video.