I’ve been thinking for years that story deserves to be told on screen. Now it has been – sort of. Firebrand is based on a 2013 novel by Elizabeth Fremantle (the first of her “Tudor trilogy”) and ...

A new film titled Firebrand about the life of the Tudor tyrant’s sixth spouse Katherine Parr depicts Britain’s 16th century ruler as a unhinged and paranoid rapist. Jude Law plays the portly ...

The acting icon believes Firebrand is in fact about 'surviving domestic abuse' and describes his character as 'a gangster — a former golden boy who's rotting'. The London-born star ...

At the beginning of historical drama Firebrand, a title explains how history often tells only of “men and war”, leaving the rest to our imagination. Adapted from Elizabeth Freemantle’s novel The Queen ...

Firebrand’s Henry is a grasping monster, both literally and metaphorically putrid – a 16th Century “Harvey Weinstein,” as the Telegraph’s reviewer noted. When the film premiered at ...

Alica Vikander and Jude Law star in Firebrand (Brouhaha Entertainment/MBK Productions) In the film, his ally Bishop Gardiner takes the complaint as greenlighting Catherine’s removal from court.

Viewers have been left curious about the ending of Jude Law’s new critically acclaimed film, Firebrand. Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship ...

Firebrand is the story of the only wife of King Henry VIII (Jude Law) who managed to survive his tumultuous sovereignty, Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander). This handsome period drama is based on the ...

Firebrand is ostensibly about Katherine Parr, but it is, like so many films about the Tudors, totally in thrall to her husband Henry VIII. The tyrant king (a deliciously rambunctious Jude Law) is ...