Just last week, after a three hour “The Tudors” marathon, I started to wonder what the heck was going on with The Young Victoria. I’ve been excited about the project since the announcement that Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up film would be a period piece starring Emily Blunt, Paul Bettany and Rupert Friend, along with a supporting cast which includes Miranda Richardson and Jim Broadbent. The film is a dramatization of the first few years of Queen Victoria’s rule, she who holds the title of longest reigning monarch in UK history.

Having seen a few stills from the film, I had no doubt that this was going to look amazing and with this cast, I was hoping for a good drama too. The trailer, which appeared sometime over the weekend, solidifies my initial thoughts though it is fairly run-of-the-mill selling the romance above all else. It suggests that the film will spend the majority of it’s time on the relationship between Victoria and Prince Albert and less on the politics of the reign. I’m all for a good romance; I only hope it’s better than The Other Boleyn Girl.

Currently The Young Victoria doesn’t have a North American release date but it opens in the UK on March 6th.

Trailer is tucked under the seat!