Banished UK royal Prince Andrew’s disastrous, life-changing TV interview about his shut friendship with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is being become a film.
Screenwriter Peter Moffat confirmed to Deadline that work has began on “Scoops,” a film in regards to the November 2019 BBC interview that led to the 62-year-old prince being banished from royal duties by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The flick is a big-screen adaptation of a e book of the identical identify — printed Thursday — that particulars behind-the-scenes wrangling that led to Andrew’s surprising determination to conform to the sit-down.
The e book by producer Sam McAlister, who clinched the blockbuster interview, “makes for very thrilling drama,” Moffat advised the outlet.
The indie manufacturing has but to assign a director, and whereas the group has “ideas” on actors to play the scandal-scarred royal, to date “nobody is connected,” stated Hilary Salmon of the manufacturing firm behind it, The Lighthouse Movie & Tv.
The pair refused to touch upon rumors that Hugh Grant had been approached — ones that the “Notting Hill” star rapidly shot down.
“By no means heard of it,” Grant, 61, tweeted Thursday, insisting he’s “not” concerned.
Nonetheless, any time the group has approached casting brokers in regards to the flick, “The response is at all times the identical, ‘Oh, wow,’” Salmon stated.
Within the bombshell interview, Andrew justified his ongoing friendship with Epstein even after the latter was convicted of intercourse offenses in opposition to younger women, and spoke warmly of his longtime pal Ghislaine Maxwell, who has since been convicted of trafficking women for Epstein.
He additionally denied understanding his personal intercourse accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre — even suggesting that a photograph of them collectively was a hoax.
In a humiliating reversal, Andrew promised to by no means once more publicly accuse Giuffre of mendacity about being “a longtime sufferer of abuse” as he settled together with her out of courtroom for an estimated $12 million.
“Prince Andrew regrets his affiliation with Epstein, and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and different survivors in standing up for themselves and others,” in accordance with his groveling assertion in February.
The film will recreate the ultimate interview, however will focus extra on “how the BBC’s Newsnight group obtained the inside track” — particularly specializing in “why did [Andrew] conform to do it,” Moffat advised Deadline.
“How was it that he determined it was a good suggestion to do a terrific massive lengthy interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC?” the screenwriter requested incredulously.
It should additionally spotlight how Andrew appeared to have come undone because of his sense of “entitlement” by which he “at all times feels in management.”
“He thought it had gone extraordinarily nicely,” Salmon stated of the sit-down that was extensively ridiculed as being a “automotive crash” for the duke.
“Newsnight couldn’t have been fairer to him,” Moffat insisted, saying Andrew wasted “all of the alternatives that [interviewer Emily Maitlis] gave him to say the appropriate issues to justify his friendship with Epstein, to say how sorry he was.”
Regardless of settling with Giuffre, Andrew — whose mother later additionally stripped him of his royal titles — has vehemently denied her claims. His TV chat got here three months after Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan lockup in August 2019 whereas awaiting additional critical intercourse fees.
Buckingham Palace has not commented on the film.
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