Welsh actor Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew in a sequence primarily based on the explosive Newsnight interview.
Sheen is well-known for his convincing portrayals of actual individuals – having performed former prime minister Tony Blair, the journalist David Frost and the soccer supervisor Brian Clough.
Ruth Wilson will tackle the function of Emily Maitlis, the journalist who grilled the Duke of York over his relationship with late billionaire intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in November 2019.
The three-part Amazon Studios sequence shall be known as A Very Royal Scandal.
The studio has stated it would comply with Maitlis’s “professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew”.
The present is in manufacturing within the UK.
Maitlis, who left Newsnight to host The News Agents podcast with former BBC journalists Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall, is an govt producer on the manufacturing.
The 53-year-old broadcaster wrote on X, previously Twitter: “Blimey. First time I’ve seen this in print. What an exceptional cast.”
The sequence is written by The Last King Of Scotland author Jeremy Brock and directed by Becoming Jane’s Julian Jarrold.
The solid additionally contains Joanna Scanlan as Prince Andrew’s ex-private secretary Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings because the late Queen’s non-public secretary Sir Edward Young, and Eanna Hardwicke as BBC Newsnight editor Stewart Maclean.
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A Very Royal Scandal is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon Studios, with Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Mr Brock and Mr Jarrold as govt producers, and Josh Hyams serving as a producer on the sequence.
Maitlis has already been an govt producer of a Channel 4 documentary in regards to the interview known as Andrew: The Problem Prince.
A Netflix movie adaptation of the interview can be within the works known as Scoop.
In that model, Maitlis is performed by Sex Education star Gillian Anderson whereas The Man In The High Castle actor Rufus Sewell seems as Andrew.
The Netflix adaption relies on former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister’s memoir Scoops: The BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews From Prince Andrew To Steven Seagal.
Source: information.sky.com”