Tom Felton’s latest enterprise into wacky comedy is about to make its approach to streaming.
Hailing from the comedic workforce of Patrick and Jimmy Carr, the Dawson Brothers and Tim Inman, Fackham Corridor served as a parody send-up of traditional British dramas, significantly Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, revolving round a rich household who, within the midst of planning a marriage, are rocked by a homicide. Felton stars within the movie because the uncouth cousin, Archibald, to Thomasin McKenzie’s Poppy, whom she’s organized to marry so as to hold the titular manor in her household’s title.
Now, some two months after the movie hit theaters, Fackham Corridor is about to start streaming. The interval comedy, which has to this point solely been out there for rental or buy on digital platforms after its December debut, will premiere on HBO Max on March 6.
With an ensemble solid additionally together with Billions‘ Damian Lewis, Entice‘s Hayley Mills, Masters of the Air‘s Ben Radcliffe and The Company‘s Katherine Waterston, Fackham Corridor immediately grew to become a sensation with critics and audiences alike because of its zany tempo and reversion to different such parody classics as The Bare Gun and Airplane!. The movie even has near-identical scores from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, with the previous netting it a 74% “Licensed Recent” approval score and the latter at 75%.
Although nonetheless greatest remembered for his flip as Draco Malfoy within the Harry Potter franchise, Fackham Corridor marked a notable continuation of Felton’s exploration of recent genres. The 15 years since his time on the fantasy film collection got here to an finish, Felton has starred in every little thing from such interval dramas as Belle and Ophelia to the Chadwick Boseman-led action-thriller Message from the King and Netflix’s household horror-comedy A Babysitter’s Information to Monster Searching.
Not like a few of his prior genre-mixing work, Fackham Corridor was Felton’s most direct comedic work to this point, and by far his most outrageous. From quite a few double entendres, together with the title of the movie itself, to dialogue bait and switches and visible gags mocking every little thing from Fifty Shades of Grey to the post-Edwardian period of the UK, Felton obtained the chance to chop free greater than most prior roles.
How Tom Felton’s New Interval Comedy “Takes The Mick Out” Of The Style Defined By Director & Stars
Tom Felton and the remainder of the Fackham Corridor solid and director Jim O’Hanlon discuss their interval comedy and poking enjoyable on the Downton Abbey-like style.
Past simply lastly getting a streaming residence, Fackham Corridor touchdown on HBO Max in March nets it an ideal place for followers of Felton. Along with the aforementioned Harry Potter franchise being out there on the WarnerMedia streamer, HBO Max can be residence to the biographical dramas A United Kingdom and Megan Leavey, in addition to the comedy Get Him to the Greek, wherein he made a cameo as himself.
Moreover, Fackham Corridor debuting on streaming in March comes proper in time for Felton’s subsequent big-screen enterprise with They Will Kill You. The motion horror-comedy sees Felton starring as a member of a Satanic cult who inhabit a traditional New York high-rise and are searching a newly employed housekeeper, who is popping the tables on them in the identical vein as Prepared or Not. With there being a number of weeks between Fackham Corridor‘s streaming debut and They Will Kill You‘s March 27 launch, the interval parody might change into a success.
- Launch Date
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December 5, 2025
- Director
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Jim O’Hanlon
- Writers
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Jimmy Carr, Patrick Carr, Steve Dawson, Tim Inman, Andrew Dawson
- Producers
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Kris Thykier, Danny Perkins, Mila Cottray
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Emma Laird
Poppy Davenport
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Damian Lewis
Lord Davenport
