--- title: Macbeth 2015 Trailer: Marion Cotillard Michael Fassbender description: All hail Macbeth canonical: https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-01T16:37:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:36:52.237Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Michael Fassbender Rise to Power in New 'Macbeth' Trailer og:description: All hail Macbeth og:url: https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80889bb1ce0dbcb3/698861e0cd1bba4b326fcfc9/fassbender-cotilard-macbeth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Fassbender-Cotilard-Macbeth og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Michael Fassbender Rise to Power in New 'Macbeth' Trailer twitter:description: All hail Macbeth twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80889bb1ce0dbcb3/698861e0cd1bba4b326fcfc9/fassbender-cotilard-macbeth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Michael Fassbender Rise to Power in New _Macbeth_ Trailer by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Sep 1, 2015 4:37 PM UTC  Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the upcoming film Macbeth. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the upcoming film Macbeth.The Weinstein Company by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Sep 1, 2015 4:37 PM UTC Something wicked this way comes. The new trailer for the upcoming _Macbeth_ offers a look at Michael Fassbender’s dark, bloodthirsty version of Shakespeare’s tragic hero, with Marion Cotillard as his power-hungry wife. Directed by Justin Kurzel, _Macbeth_ also stars Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, and Jack Reynor. “I wasn’t seeking out to do Shakespeare at the time, when \[producer\] Iain Canning approached me,” Fassbender [told EW](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/22/michael-fassbender-macbeth-slow-west-jobs). “But it was one of those things. You get the opportunity to do it and there was just no way I could have said no.” _Macbeth_ will hit select U.S. theaters on Dec. 4. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/01/michael-fassbender-macbeth-new-trailer) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/"},"headline":"Watch Michael Fassbender Rise to Power in New Macbeth Trailer","datePublished":"2015-09-01T16:37:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:36:52.237Z","description":"All hail Macbeth","url":"https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/","keywords":["movies","michael fassbender","Marion Cotillard"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80889bb1ce0dbcb3/698861e0cd1bba4b326fcfc9/fassbender-cotilard-macbeth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80889bb1ce0dbcb3/698861e0cd1bba4b326fcfc9/fassbender-cotilard-macbeth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fassbender-Cotilard-Macbeth","caption":"Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the upcoming film Macbeth.","creditText":"The Weinstein Company","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4018893/macbeth-trailer-marion-cotillard-michael-fassbender/","name":"Watch Michael Fassbender Rise to Power in New Macbeth Trailer"}}]}] ```