Amma Asante has ventured into studies of race and history before with her previous 2014 film Belle, also based on a true story, which was inspired by the 1779 portrait of Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Mansfield’s nephew.
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David Oyelowo is going for a second crack at the Oscars in the upcoming drama A United Kingdom. As he returns to Botswana with his wife, the newlyweds find that their union stirs fierce global controversy.
The trailer has debuted for David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike’s 1940s love story “that shook the world”, A United Kingdom. She’s an accomplished office worker, and white. What he can’t tell her at first is that he’s also a prince, first in line to the throne of Bechuanaland (today’s Botswana).
When the time comes for Seretse to return home to lead his people’s independence movement, he impulsively proposes to Ruth. Khama and Williams defy their families and Apartheid South Africa as they fight for their relationship.
A United Kingdom will screen at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, a classic move to angle itself for the upcoming awards season.
While A United Kingdom is a biopic movie, it is set to be a sweeping romance and a touching human drama – it is one of the London Film Festival movies that I am looking forward to seeing the most.
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Scheduled for release in 2016, it is a follow up to the critically acclaimed Belle.
