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Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans Gets a New Trailer, and Some New Faces

Regular Bleeding Cool readers may have heard me go on abot how the TV version of Horrible Histories is one of the greatest contrbutions to modern British popular culture in recent decades. A kids educational programme made up of comedy sketches set across human history, and some killer songs to boot, it put together a core team of actors and writers, who have become the new Monty Python, going on to create TV shows Yonderland and Ghosts, as well as the movie Bill.

However, that core team are remarkably and notably absent in the first Horrible Histories movie, dubbed Rotten Romans.

There is no sign of Martha Howe-Douglas, Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard or Ben Willbond.

There are a few other folk though. Launching in the UK an Ireland on 26th July, it is going to be a monster hit anyway. Over here, anyway, no release date for the US, yet.

Here's the trailer, poster and PR…

XIV. VI. MMXIX, Londinium: ahead of the film launching onto the big on 26 July 2019, Altitude unleash the official trailer and poster for see HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS

Led by rising stars Sebastian Croft (GAME OF THRONES) as Roman teenager Atti and Emilia Jones (PATRICK) as his Celtic rival Orla, HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS features an all-star cast including Nick Frost (FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY) as Orla's father Arghus, Craig Roberts (SUBMARINE) as Emperor Nero and Kim Cattrall (SEX AND THE CITY) as Nero's mother Agrippina. Additional cast include BRIT Award-winning artist Kate Nash (GLOW) as Boudicca, Rupert Graves (SHERLOCK) as Governor General Paulinus, Alex Macqueen (THE INBETWEENERS) as Nero's assistant Sycophantus and Sir Derek Jacobi reprises his iconic role as Claudius.

Atti (Croft) is a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero (Roberts) Atti is forced to join the army and sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla (Jones), a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior. Meanwhile a furious Nero is determined to crush the British rebellion, led by Boudicca (Nash). As the Romans prepare for an historic showdown with the Celts at the Battle of Watling Street the two new friends find themselves lined up on opposite sides of the battlefield.

HORRIBLE HISTORES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS is the feature film debut from Award winning director Dominic Brigstocke (I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE, GREEN WING, TRACEY ULLMAN'S SHOW). Rounding out the cast is a host of brilliant comic talent including Alexander Armstrong, Lee Mack, Warwick Davis, Lucy Montgomery, Jamie Demetriou, Tony Gardner, Kevin Bishop, Samantha Spiro, Ella Smith, Dan Renton Skinner, Dustin Demri-Burns, Tim Downie, Ncuti Gatwa and Chris Addison alongside HORRIBLE HISTORIES alumni Sarah Hadland, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Dave Lamb, Jessica Ransom, Tom Stourton, Dominique Moore, Richard David-Caine, Lawry Lewin, Katy Wix, Katherine Jakeways and more.

Based on global publisher Scholastic's beloved best-selling and award-winning children's historical comedy book series HORRIBLE HISTORIES by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown, the film's screenplay has been written by the Olivier award-winning playwright Jessica Swale (NELL GWYNN), together with Giles Pilbrow (TRACEY ULLMAN'S SHOW) and Caroline Norris (RAISED BY WOLVES).

HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS is being produced by Altitude and Citrus Films in association with Scholastic, Lion Television, Ingenious Media, BBC Films, CBBC, Silver Reel and with the support of Amazon Studios.

Schools will be able to arrange special end of term preview screenings from 8 July. Contact groupbookings@altitudefilment.com

Further details including cinema listings and ticket purchasing, will be available at HorribleHistories.film

HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS IS RELEASED IN UK AND IRISH CINEMAS ON 26 JULY

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