Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren are together at last in thrilling 'The Good Liar' trailer

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Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren are together at last in thrilling 'The Good Liar' trailer
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How have Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Helen Mirren never been in a film together before now? Britain, what have you been doing? (Actually, don't answer that.)

The Good Liar is here to fix this egregious oversight, though. With Sir Ian as a con artist and Dame Helen as his wealthy mark, it looks a bit more Six Degrees Of Separation than Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and like a sexy, vicious time for all involved. There's some nasty business in the back of a butcher's shop and some equally brutal, very British exchanging of looks and pointed questions over dinner.

Directed by veteran and McKellen fave Bill Condon, it's in theaters in November. We're going to watch the shit out of it.

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.


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