Izvestia publishes exclusive footage from the filming of the movie "The King and the Fool. Forever"

For the filming of the movie "The King and the Fool. Forever", which is scheduled to premiere on February 19, 2026, a large-scale three-story decoration resembling a Colosseum was erected in the pavilion in St. Petersburg. The action of the future film takes place immediately after the events of the TV series of the same name, which was released on Kinopoisk in 2023. After his death, Gorshok lives in the world of songs of the "King and the Fool" — in the tavern, where he is forever the headliner. The construction of the facility took several months.

"I took Shakespeare's Globe Theater as a basis, but we made the structure more antique, similar to the Colosseum. There was an old stone theater with an arena in the center, around which people are bragging. This is the punk paradise of the Pot," said conceptual artist Andrei Nazarov about the idea.

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The leading roles in full meter are performed by the same actors as in the series.: Konstantin Plotnikov as the Pot, Vlad Konoplev as the Prince, Daria Melnikova as the Widow, Vera Volt as the Princess, Ilya Khvostikov as the Stump. Ilya Grishin joined the cast, who will appear as a Necromancer, the main antagonist of the upcoming film.

"This time we are not delving into biographies. This time it's a pure fairy tale, fantasy without brakes, absolute fiction. Our villain is Ilya Grishin, a debutant. This is not some ancient senile man or a Koshchey with a stick. This is a young, charismatic dude — one hundred percent crash for a female audience. Crashes in movies are a must have. There is something of the Gothic romantics in his image, and the spirit of the early David Bowie. And what he's going to sing is a mix of "The King and the Fool" with Bowie. Such a goth-punk icon from a dark fairy tale," says director Rustam Mosafir.

More than 200 people were involved in filming the mass scenes in the restaurant. Izvestia visited the site.

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