Rupert Everett played Wilde in a revival of David Hare’s play “The Judas Kiss” in 2012 in London, and now he returns to the role in “The Happy Prince,” which he also wrote and directed.

For Rupert Everett, its 59-year-old producer, writer, director and star, “The Happy Prince” may be a sad story but an ideal subject. The Irish playwright, novelist, dandy and wit might as well ...

"I can make you happy." "Yes, you can." Lionsgate UK has released the trailer for Rupert Everett's film The Happy Prince, which he not only wrote and directed (and produced), but he also stars in ...

But “The Happy Prince,” which took a reported 10 years to get in front of the cameras, is Everett’s passion project — and it shows. It’s a film of decided care and forethought.

Rupert Everett on playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince Actor and director Rupert Everett says he wants to rescue Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde from his image as a sainted, long-suffering martyr ...

Rupert Everett's The Happy Prince presents Wilde in the self-imposed exile of his declining years, ailing and abandoned, trying to rebuild and relive his past glories while hiding from a scornful ...

Directed, written by and starring Rupert Everett, “The Happy Prince” is a chronicle of the last sad, wild, ecstatic and semi-impoverished years of the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde ...

The Happy Prince does, nonetheless, mark out new territory in its willingness to probe Wilde's final weakness and fragility. You can smell the decay. The Happy Prince opens on Friday, June 22nd ...

In his directorial debut on new film “The Happy Prince,” Rupert Everett imagines the dying days of Oscar Wilde, a literary icon he compares to Jesus Christ himself. The British actor states he ...

The Happy Prince is both written and directed by Golden Globe-nominated, English actor-filmmaker Rupert Everett, making his feature directorial debut with this film.

Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger ...