Stars Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo and Laura Carmichael will celebrate the best of British film when their new movie A United Kingdom opens the BFI London Film Festival.
The film tells the love story of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland, now modern Botswana, and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of opposition from their families and governments.
The film is directed by Amma Asante, who also made Belle, and will be the opening night gala screening of the festival.
Other films receiving gala premieres during the star-studded festival will be Oliver Stone’s new movie Snowden, the current Oscar frontrunner La La Land and designer Tom Ford’s follow up to A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals.
Stars expected to walk the red carpet in London include Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Sigourney Weaver, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Nicole Kidman.
David will make a second appearance at the festival when he returns for the premiere of Queen Of Katwe on Sunday, in which he stars opposite Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o.
Amy will also make a double appearance to promote Arrival, opposite Jeremy, and Ford’s Nocturnal Animals while Michelle is expected at the premieres of both Sundance hit Manchester By The Sea and Certain Women.
The festival will close with Free Fire, Ben Wheatley’s follow up to High Rise, which stars Oscar-winner Brie Larson and Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy.
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