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Netflix has picked up SCOOP, a brand new biopic film looking behind the scenes of the BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew. An all-star solid has been assembled, and manufacturing has begun. Here’s what you’ll want to know.
The undertaking has been in growth for a while earlier than being connected to Netflix.
Deadline first reported in January 2022 that the script was being developed by Peter Moffat, with the undertaking initially deliberate to start filming in November 2022 and had eyed Hugh Grant eyed for a lead position (which he subsequently denied).
Per Netflix, the movie is sure solely to them as a Netflix Original and has began manufacturing within the United Kingdom.
Here’s what else you’ll want to know:
What’s Netflix’s Scoop about?
Picture: BBC Newsnight
The new film might be a “behind-the-scenes account” of the well-known interview that aired on BBC Newsnight on November sixteenth, 2019. Prince Andrew was interviewed by veteran journalist Emily Maitlis and addressed current and rising allegations that related him to Jeffrey Epstein.
This film takes a have a look at how the BBC scored the interview, which had profound results on the longer term position of Prince Andrew throughout the Royal Family and the continued case surrounding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The film might be primarily based on the account offered by producer Sam McAlister and her memoir referred to as Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews.
Per GoodReads, right here’s what the guide, first printed in July 2022, is about:
“She is the lady who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as ‘a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion’.
After 12 years producing content material for Newsnight, Sam McAlister displays with candour on her expertise, sharing not simply the secrets and techniques of how one of the best information will get made, but additionally the adjustments to the BBC, the way forward for ‘mainstream media’ within the age of clickbait and the position of energy and privilege in shaping our media panorama.”
Netflix’s logline for the undertaking expands additional, speaking concerning the themes you possibly can anticipate from the forthcoming film:
“SCOOP is the insider account of the inner workings of the Palace and the BBC, twin bastions of the British Establishment, spotlighting the journalists whose tenacity and guts broke through the highest of ceilings – and into the inner sanctum and calculations of a man with everything to lose.”
As a primer, the complete interview stays obtainable on the BBC News YouTube Channel, with has over 7.2 million views and could be discovered embedded beneath:
Who is within the solid for Netflix’s Scoop?
Pictured: Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell
Four solid members have been confirmed to star within the film to date.
- Gillian Anderson (Sex Education, The Crown, The Fall) will play Emily Maitlis within the film who’s Newsnight’s former lead presenter and now a number for the podcast The News Agents for Global Radio.
- Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Stonehouse, It’s a Sin) will play Amanda Thrisk, the previous Private Secretary to Prince Andrew.
- Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie, Doctor Who) will play Sam McAlister, the BBC producer who scored the reserving.
- Rufus Sewell (Netflix’s upcoming sequence The Diplomat, The Father, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will star as Prince Andrew.
Who’s behind Netflix’s Scoop?
Emmy and BAFTA winner Philip Martin – Picture: Getty Images
Emmy and BAFTA winner Philip Martin is connected to direct the undertaking. He’s beforehand labored on Night Sky for Prime Video and Catherine the Great for HBO.
Martin can be no stranger to protecting the Royal Family on display, given he’s served as government producer on a number of seasons of Netflix’s multi-award-winning sequence The Crown. He’s additionally directed a number of episodes.
In an announcement, Martin commented on the brand new film, saying:
“I’m thrilled to be directing this film for Netflix and – together with an extraordinary cast – to be bringing Sam McAlister’s revelatory insider’s account to the screen. Uptempo, immersive and cinematic, I want to put the audience inside the breath-taking sequence of events that led to the interview with Prince Andrew – to tell a story about a search for answers, in a world of speculation and varying recollections. It’s a film about power, privilege and differing perspectives and how – whether in glittering palaces or hi-tech newsrooms – we judge what’s true.”
SCOOP is produced by Hilary Salmon and Radford Neville (Luther, MomFatherSon) for The Lighthouse Film & Television, with Sanjay Singhal (Trouble at Topshop) for Voltage TV.
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