Most movies about Englands King Henry VIII like to focus on the mercurial monarchs failed marriages.
His six wives have been collectively described as divorced, died, beheaded, divorced, beheaded, survived.
This all changed about 2012, when producer Gabrielle Tana optioned film rights to Elizabeth FremantlesQueens Gambit.
Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr in ‘Firebrand’Larry D. Horricks/Brouhaha Entertainment
Not only isFirebrandentertaining, it is also enlightening, finally giving Parr her due.
OK, so it took nearly 500 years, but here we are.
The King is also at odds with the Seymours, brothers of his late third wife Jane Seymour.
Prince Edward Seymour (Eddie Marsan) is far more conniving knowing he is the heir to the throne.
He looks like he is having a blast, and steals every scene he is in.
Carolyn Mars Blackwood joins Tana as producer.
