King George VI and his wife return to the big screen in film about love affair between Us president Franklin D Roosevelt and distant cousin
The legacy of The King's Speech lives on: King George VI and his wife are to make a return to the big screen in Hyde Park on the Hudson, an adaptation of a BBC radio play, directed by Roger Michell. The production will be bankrolled by Film4, who apparently passed on funding The King's Speech in their eagerness to get this film about the monarch off the ground.
But there's no word on who will play the royal couple this time round, and indeed this time the characters are supporting, rather than the leads. The main focus of the story is the love affair between Us president Franklin D Roosevelt and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, which comes to a head in June 1939, when the...
The legacy of The King's Speech lives on: King George VI and his wife are to make a return to the big screen in Hyde Park on the Hudson, an adaptation of a BBC radio play, directed by Roger Michell. The production will be bankrolled by Film4, who apparently passed on funding The King's Speech in their eagerness to get this film about the monarch off the ground.
But there's no word on who will play the royal couple this time round, and indeed this time the characters are supporting, rather than the leads. The main focus of the story is the love affair between Us president Franklin D Roosevelt and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, which comes to a head in June 1939, when the...
- 3/30/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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