The irony of a Netflix film opening the Toronto International Film Festival is not lost on its director, David Mackenzie. Outlaw King, with Chris Pine as 14th-century Scottish King Robert the Bruce, screened at Roy Thomson Hall and the Princess of Wales theatre last Thursday ahead of two more festival screenings, but will next appear on the streaming service Nov 2. I was also close by the cast so I was enjoying their reaction because a lot of them hadn’t seen the movie. And the intact castles, you can probably count them on one hand.”The Scottish-born director is, perhaps not surprisingly, a fan of Python’s 1975 film. “It was an anxiety to make a realistic movie set in the same period and for it not to be comedic.”

Source: National Post September 10, 2018 16:06 UTC