Coming Soon in 2016: Emperor

Official Synopsis

Emperor is a sweeping 16th century epic action adventure with a contemporary twist.  It charts the rollercoaster journey of feisty and daring 21 year-old Johanna who infiltrates the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to avenge the death of her beloved father.  Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Third Person) stars as brilliant strategist Emperor Charles V who is trying to hold together a fragmented empire in a world of wealth, debauchery, intrigue and treason. Johanna is played by hot young newcomer, Sophie Cookson, who will soon be seen as the female lead opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine and Colin Firth in Matthew Vaughn’s The Secret Service: Kingsman.  Cookson was also named one of Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow.


Emperor is directed by Lee Tamahori and also stars Thomas Kretschmann, Bill Skarsgård, Paz Vega, Oliver Platt... The score is written by Abel Korzeniowski ( Romeo and Juliet, Penny Dreadful, A Single Man). The film should be released around Autumn this year.

Sophie Cookson and Adrien Brody

Michaël Pas, Adrien Brody and Götz Otto on set in Ghent

Paz Vega as Mary of Hungary

Sophie Cookson, mostly known for her role in Kingsman: The Secret Service

Here's an interesting post on the illustrator who made the portrait of Charles V used in the film and also shows some great set pictures.

Here you can see some amazing pictures and information on the production of several other props like e.g. banners, leaflets... made by Barbara Sandberg.

An of course, as usual, the obligatory discussion of the costumes. 

I had the luck to be an extra on the Belgian set in Ghent for five days. I'm not allowed to tell you much or show anything about that experience yet, but some youtube videos and other pictures have surfaced on the internet.

Another video made on set in Ghent can be found here.

Several more hq set pictures in Gent like this one (watch out for spoilers!)

I'm definitely looking forward to see the scenes I was present in on the big screen...

Sources: corsan.be, alamy.com