March 23 (UPI) -- The BBC has released the first photo of Anthony Hopkins and Florence Pugh as their characters from director Richard Eyre's contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear.
Co-starring Emma Thompson and Emily Watson, the co-production with Amazon Studios is set to debut this spring. The TV tragedy about a mad monarch who divides his kingdom according to how well his daughters flatter him will also feature Jim Broadbent, Andrew Scott, John Macmillan, Jim Carter, Christopher Eccleston, Tobias Menzies, Anthony Calf and Karl Johnson.