Gabriel Yared and Cyrille Aufort are co-scoring the historical drama A Royal Affair. The film directed by Nicolaj Arcel (King’s Game, screenwriter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) centers on the affair between Chr. VII’s German physician, Johan Struensee, and the English born queen of Denmark, Caroline Mathilda in the early 1770’s. The movie stars Mads Mikkelsen as Johan Struensee and Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilda. Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik are co-starring and Graum Jørgensen (In a Better World, Meta Louise Foldager (Melancholia and Peter Aalbæk Jensen are producing the Zentropa Entertainment production. The movie is set for a release on March 15, 2012 in several European countries. Magnolia Pictures has picked up domestic rights and a release next year in the US is expected.
As previously reported, Yared also has Angelina Jolie’s directorial feature debut In the Land of Blood and Honey coming up this holiday season. Aufort had his international breakout movie last year with Vincento Natali’s sci-fi horror film Splice starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley.
