Wild New Trailer for Hammer Films' DOCTOR JEKYLL Starring Eddie Izzard
Hammer Films has released a new trailer for their wild new take on Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The movie is titled Doctor Jekyll and it stars Eddie Izzard. Izzard now goes by the name Suzy, but the name Eddie is still being used in the marketing material.
Doctor Jekyll focuses on “a reclusive Nina Jekyll finding friendship with her newly hired help, Rob, played by rising star Scott Chambers, who must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.”
Joe Stephenson directed the pic from a script written by Dan Kelly-Mulhern. The director previously said: “There’ve been over 100 cinematic adaptations of Stevenson’s novella, but there has never been a trans Dr. Jekyll.
“There seem to be some assumptions that because Nina is a trans character, we are somehow going to make it about gender. That is not the case; the themes of our film are true to the original work.”
Scott Chambers co-stars in the film alongside Lindsay Duncan, Jonathan Hyde and Simon Callow.
Check out the trailer below, and you can check out the film in theaters on August 2nd.