--- title: Young Pope: Watch Jude Law and Diane Keaton in Trailer VIDEO description: Law stars as an enigmatic Vatican ruler in the new trailer for 'The Young Pope,' a television mini-series directed by Paolo Sorrentino. canonical: https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-03T20:41:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:15.563Z og:title: Take a First Look at Jude Law As a Devious 'Young Pope' og:description: 'The Young Pope' will air on HBO in 2017, starring Law as an enigmatic ruler. og:url: https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Take a First Look at Jude Law As a Devious 'Young Pope' twitter:description: 'The Young Pope' will air on HBO in 2017, starring Law as an enigmatic ruler. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Take a First Look at Jude Law As a Wickedly Devious _Young Pope_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 3, 2016 8:41 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 3, 2016 8:41 PM UTC In a new television mini-series aptly titled “The Young Pope,” [British actor Jude Law](http://world.time.com/2014/01/27/how-jude-law-discovered-a-family-member-leaked-to-the-british-tabloids/?iid=sr-link2) plays the fictional papal figure himself, an eerily confident young religious leader of American origin who carries off a pontiff’s regal habit with effortless aplomb. Directed by [Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/15/the-great-beauty-sorrentinos-la-dolce-vita-2-0/?iid=sr-link1), this version of the Vatican’s head of state is no benevolent, forward-thinking, [conciliatory Pope Francis](http://time.com/22675/francis-a-pope-that-millennials-can-love/?iid=sr-link3); Law may look like a charming movie star, but this Pius XIII is a loose cannon with a sinister streak. (“Revolution” is on his mind, as the short teaser trailer tells us.) “I am a contradiction. Like Mary, virginal mother; like man, good and evil. I’m God,” Law intones. He’s joined onscreen by a quick cut to Diane Keaton as a stoic nun. [Early reviews of the ten-episode mini-series](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/03/the-young-pope-review-jude-laws-sleek-pontiff-shines-in-sorrentinos-twin-peaks), with its lush framing and cinematic scope, have been positive. It will air in Italy, France, and the UK this fall, before becoming available on HBO stateside in early 2017\. Until then, we will have to imagine just what kind of trouble Law gets up to. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/"},"headline":"Take a First Look at Jude Law As a Wickedly Devious Young Pope","datePublished":"2016-10-03T20:41:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:15.563Z","description":"\"I am a contradiction.\"","url":"https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4517016/young-pope-trailer/","name":"Take a First Look at Jude Law As a Wickedly Devious Young Pope"}}]}] ```