BLACK PALACE FIRST LOOKS

New Regency have released first look images for Black Palace, which has completed photography, from BAFTA winning Director Nick Hamm (William Tell, Driven, The Hole) ahead of TIFF ’26.

 Image courtesy of New Regency

Black Palace, a psychological thriller set behind the secretive walls of Buckingham Palace, is written by Jon Croker (No One Gets Out Alive and Academy Award winning The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse). Produced by Marie-Christine Jaeger-Firmenich (William Tell), BAFTA Nominee Piers Tempest (I Swear), Academy Award nominee Mark Huffam (The Martian) and Nick Hamm, the film is co-produced by Hannah Shipley and Will Matthews, and the executive producers are Jeremy Bolt and Jon Croker. 

In the Autumn of 1888, as the emerging tabloid media terrify the public with lurid stories of Jack the Ripper, a young woman is sent to work at the heart of Queen Victoria’s British Empire: Buckingham Palace. Her task is to spy on Victoria’s wayward grandson who keeps disappearing at night. As she grows closer to the Prince, traversing a maze of privilege and poverty, she uncovers secrets which threaten both the Crown and her own survival.  

 Image courtesy of New Regency

The film features a stellar cast including Freya Allan (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Witcher), Academy Award nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog), Joe Anders (Cape Fear), Raffey Cassidy (The Brutalist), Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) with Martin Clunes (Wuthering Heights) and Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply).

Nick Hamm comments; "Directing Black Palace has been both aprivilege and a unique challenge. The film is constantly shifting, between question and answer, tone and perspective, and that demanded a similarly fluid approach to genre. One moment needing to thrill, the next to enchant; extreme fear had to sit alongside extreme passion. Much like the play within the story, the film itself becomes a kind of Jekyll & Hyde experience: romantic and terrifying, seductive and unsettling in equal measure. I can’t wait to share it with audiences."