Watch Mapplethorpe UK Trailer Starring Matt Smith

From Doctor Who to a Young Prince Phillip to soon Charles Manson, now Matt Smith will star as Robert Mapplethorpe in Mapplethorpe. Considered as one of the most important photographers of our time. But also a bad boy too, the film is an heartbreaking but equally shocking look at the infamous artists life and career. Thanks to his art he found not just his unique style but also his sexuality which shocked many in the mainstream. A man who just wanted to be a ‘modern Michelangelo’.

His life may have been considered a scandal but now thirty years after his untimely death, his biopic film will be released. Signature Entertainment have released the UK trailer, check it out…

Matt Smith stars in this shocking biopic chronicling the journey of the infamous ‘bad boy’ photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe. Following him as an artist growing up in 1950’s Queens, New York, as he relentlessly pursued a career in fine art, gaining recognition as one of the world’s most important photographers of our time until his untimely death in 1989.

Much like his personal life, Mapplethorpe’s work was often considered scandalous. This is a bold, heart-breaking and versatile look at one of the most controversial artists of this century.

The film will also star Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey, McKinley Belcher III, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler.

You will be able to own Mapplethorpe when it’s released on 23rd September.