VIDEO: Teaser Trailer for MACBETH, Starring Michael Fassbender & Marion Cotillard

From the Academy Award® winning producers of The King's Speech and acclaimed director Justin Kurzel, comes a visceral and visually breath-taking retelling of the classic tale about an ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his wife.

Starring Academy Award® nominee Michael Fassbender and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard, MACBETH is an epic cinematic experience. The film will be released in the UK on October 2nd. The Weinstein Company is set to distribute the film in the U.S. at a later date. Watch the official teaser trailer below!

A new feature film adaptation of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy MACBETH starring international superstarsMichael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and the critics have already weighed in.

The new take on the Bard's classic story of war, power, murder and guilt is lensed by Justin Kurzel, with a script by Jacob Koskoff and Todd Louiso, adapted from the original Shakespeare play.

Fassbender stars as Macbeth, with Cotillard as Lady MacBeth and the rest of the cast filled out by Sean Harris as MacDuff and Paddy Considine as Banquo as well as David Thewlis, Jack Reynor and Elizabeth Debicki in featured roles. Click here for production photos and here for ALL the critics' reviews of the film.