Amazon Studios has released a new poster for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, its star-studded biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the eccentric British artist Louis Wain. The new poster features Cumberbatch and Claire Foy (The Crown), who plays the artist’s wife, Emily Richardson. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain will premiere in theaters on October 22 before coming to Amazon Prime on November 5.
The new posters put the two leads of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain in the middle of a surreal painting, with the background distorted as if reflected by a mirror and repeated multiples times towards infinity. The cat that features in the poster alongside Foy and Cumberbatch seems to be a clear reference to Wain’s paintings of felines, for which he became famous.
The impressive supporting cast of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain includes Andrea Riseborough (Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)), Toby Jones (The Hunger Games), Sharon Rooney (Dumbo), Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac), Phoebe Nicholls (The Elephant Man), Adeel Akhtar (The Big Sick), Asim Chaudhry (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), Richard Ayoade (Soul), Julian Barratt (Mindhorn) and Sophia di Martino (Loki).
It was also announced that Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Nick Cave (20,000 Days on Earth), and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) appear in the film, with Colman narrating. The film is directed by Will Sharpe from a screenplay he wrote with Luca scribe Simon Stephenson, based on a story by Stephenson.
After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival and getting exhibited at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain will hit theaters on October 22, coming to Amazon Prime on November 5. Check the new poster below.
Here’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain's official synopsis:
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever. Moving from the late 1800s through to the 1930s, we follow the incredible adventures of this inspiring, unsung hero, as he seeks to unlock the "electrical" mysteries of the world and, in so doing, to better understand his own life and the profound love he shared with his wife Emily Richardson (Claire Foy).