“Scoop” is coming, the film that will recreate the famous and disastrous interview with Prince Andrew to the BBC, in 2019, and has the script written by Peter Moffat for the production company The Lighthouse.
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The news was advanced exclusively by Deadline, which specifies that the “novelty” You won’t be welcome at Buckingham Palace. If you don’t remember, the BBC interview aired in November 2019. In it, André revealed his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a criminal convicted of sex scandals, who was found dead two months earlier.
The arrogance, the ignorance displayed by the Prince in the interview and, according to the Telegraph, the fact that he did not express any regrets for his friendship with Epstein, did not go down well in the public sphere… nor in the royal family. Days after, André was removed from the public life of the family. and, more recently, even lost the honorary title of the City of York.
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Although there is no director yet and the casting has not yet started, the production will start in november and actor Hugh Grant is, according to the Hollywood press, preferred to play the role of André.
“Scoop” is based on the book “Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews”, written by Sam McAlister. In the film, it will be discussed how the Newsnight program team got the interview and what led the prince to accept the invitation.
Source: Observadora
