‘The Christophers’ Trailer: Ian McKellen Plans the Art Forgery of a Lifetime in Steven Soderbergh’s Festival Hit

‘The Christophers’ Trailer: Ian McKellen Plans the Art Forgery of a Lifetime in Steven Soderbergh’s Festival Hit

Steven Soderbergh directs Ian McKellen in the new movie 'The Christophers.' Watch the trailer.

See the Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s New Film About an Artist and an Art Forger

The art world continues to be Hollywood’s new favorite setting. Following Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, an art thriller released last month, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, a 2025 film about an art heist, comes The Christophers by director Steven Soderbergh. The new film, set to be released April 10 in the US and May 15 in the UK following its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last September, stars Ian McKellen as a once celebrated arti…

Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel Neon has shared a poster and trailer for The Christophers, the upcoming comedy drama from director Steven Soderbergh. The film sees the children of a once famous artist hiring a forger to pose as his assistant and gain access to his unfinished work and complete them, in hope of using them to gain an inheritance…

The Christophers Trailer: Ian McKellen Is An Art Forgery Target In Steven Soderbergh Crime Comedy

Even by Steven Soderbergh's prolific filmmaking standards, 2025 was a very busy year. Before the year was through, the man had released two movies — spy thriller Black Bag and haunted house chiller Presence — and shot a third. That third film, The Christophers, is a London-set crime comedy in which Sir Ian McKellen plays Julian Sklar, a once renowned artist with a messy family life who unwittingly becomes the target of art restorer/forger Lori (…

Watch Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel in the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers

The Christophers is directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon. It stars Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, and James Corden. Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but he hasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children […]

Steven Soderbergh's THE CHRISTOPHERS Starring Ian McKellan, Michaela Coel | Official Trailer, Poster and Images

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but he hasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage. Her plan is to complete them, th…