LONDON, April 20 (UPI) -- Benedict Cumberbatch appears as King Richard III in the latest trailer for the BBC's upcoming Shakespearean historical drama, The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses.
The second in a series of two-hour film adaptations of William Shakespeare's historical plays Henry VI Part 1, Henry V1 Part 2 and Richard III, The Hollow Crown follows Richard Plantagenet (Cumberbatch) as he emerges to become the first Duke of York and then the infamous King Richard III of England.