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Introduction Specs
Darkest Hour is a British war drama film from 2017, directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. The film stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and follows his early days as Prime Minister when Hitler redeemed England in World War II (The Darkest Hour). Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane and Ronald Pickup also play the lead role.

The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2017, and also featured on September 11, 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be released on November 22, 2017 in the US and January 12, 2018 in the UK.

Production Analysts
On February 5, 2015, it was announced that Working Title Films had acquired Darkest Hour, a screenplay by Theory of Everything screenwriter Anthony McCarten about Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II.
On March 19, 2016, it was reported that Joe Wright was in talks to direct the film. On April 14, 2016, Gary Oldman was in talks to play Churchill.

On September 6, 2016, it was reported that Focus Features will release the film on November 24, 2017 in the US with Ben Mendelsohn (as King George VI) and Kristin Scott Thomas (as Clementine Churchill).
As of November 3, 2016, Darkest Hour started main photography. Also in November it was reported that Dario Marianelli would rate the film.
On November 8, 2016 Stephen Dillane joined the cast.For his role as Churchill, Oldman spent more than 200 hours applying makeup during filming.

John Hurt was originally cast as former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. According to Oldman, however, Hurt was treated for pancreatic cancer and could not see through the transparencies. Ronald Pickup instead took on the role of Chamberlain and Hurt died of cancer in January 2017.

Review About Darkest Hour
Just as Britain negotiates its inglorious withdrawal from Europe and our political classes are preparing to ratify the chaotic task of a Union to prevent another war, there seems to be a renewed appetite for 1940 films. Christopher Nolan just gave us his opera dive. in Dunkerque, and now Joe Wright - who stages himself Bravura Dunkirk scenes in his 2007 film Atonement - directs this undeniably exciting and beguiling portrayal of Winston Churchill's darkest hour in 1940, when Hitler's troops congregate across the Channel, ready to invade. It was written by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the latest biography of Stephen Hawking's The Theory of Everything.

This is not so much a war film of the time as a political thriller of superlatives: May 1940 as House of Cards, with the war premieres against a cabal of politicians who want to kill him. It is interesting for a movie to remind us that appeasement as a theme did not disappear when Winston Churchill took over the post of prime minister; Despite the famous David Low cartoons, not everyone was right behind him and rolled up his sleeves. Here his immediate enemies are not Hitler and Mussolini, but Chamberlain and Halifax, who campaigned for a deal with the Nazis and were planning to undermine Churchill's Cabinet and parliamentary position.

They are played respectively by Ronald Pickup and Stephen Dillane, the latter having a malign mandarin impassivity. Dillane makes him a pretty unholy fox. Ben Mendelsohn plays George VI, who is now at Churchill convert, conjuring a scene between Winston's sinews. (This film incidentally does not make the mistake in The King's Speech of Implying that Churchill sided with Bertie during the Abdication.)

Darkest Hour has been similar to the recent film Churchill, with Brian Cox; like that drama it imagines a pretty young WAAF figure as his secretary, for him at first grumpy and then soppy with - Lily James plays this part here. Miranda Richardson played the Exasperated Wife Clemmie in the Brian Cox movie and here it Kristin Scott Thomas being exasperated and affectionate, helping the impossible old devil dress etc, in more or less the same way into. But this movie packs a much bigger and more effective punch, and that's down to a more ambitious scale, peter's narrative drive - and the lead performance.