![]() The Lost King, which reunites the makers of the award-winning Philomena, opens in British cinemas on 7 October and Australian cinemas on 26 December. It is unfair if it doesn’t show our partnership with her.” This point is disputed by King, who says that the university made the first major payment and underwrote the dig research, whereupon the council joined in.Įxcavation director Mathew Morris, portrayed in the film by Alasdair Hankinson, said this weekend: “It was always going to be Philippa’s story, but my big concern is how we are shown. Langley also claims she funded much of the early work. But in the end, I came to find my voice.” Speaking to the Guardian last week, Langley said she had felt “diminished” by the university academics and by the archaeologists on the dig: “I was sidelined and marginalised. ![]() View image in fullscreen Richard’s coffin at Leicester cathedral before the reburial ceremony in 2015. “We always included her, and gave out her number to the press.” There’s dialogue in there that not only didn’t happen that way, but didn’t happen at all,” he said. “I’m surprised to be the villain of the piece. The film’s trailer shows him making fun of her intuition about where Richard lay. Taylor is also “frustrated” that his screen character, played by Lee Ingleby, represents the academic bureaucracy that Langley felt stood in her way. If you are going to portray real people, at least involve them. “Tension makes a good story but it doesn’t necessarily make it true. ![]() “We all recognise it would not have happened without the tireless enthusiasm of Philippa, but equally it would not have happened without the university team,” he said. Taylor, who now works at Loughborough University, first told the world that Richard III had been found at the famous press conference in February 2013 and he is upset the film proclaims itself “the true story”. What is more, Richard Taylor, the former deputy registrar at Leicester University, said this weekend that he suspects the film does not pay due respect to the late David Baldwin, one of the first academics to pinpoint the car park as a potential burial site in the mid-1980s. Why wouldn’t we? We bent over backwards, in fact.” ![]() “We tried to keep Philippa involved all the time. “Everyone brought something to the table, that was what was so nice,” she said. King, who worked on the dig with the renowned lead archaeologist Richard Buckley, said Langley was inspirational but did not have the expertise to lead them. They are concerned that Langley, motivated by the belief that she was cut out by the team, has told the film-makers an incomplete version of the story. All agree she is the heart of the story, but the historians and archaeologists who carried out the work fear the acclaimed team making the film, including co-screenwriter Jeff Pope and director Stephen Frears, have now cast them all as obstacles, rather than as Langley’s supporters. Langley, played by Sally Hawkins in the film, is a passionate member of the Richard III Society and the woman who persuaded the local council and the University of Leicester to start the dig. A quirky drama, it is co-written by Steve Coogan, who also stars as the husband of Philippa Langley, the woman behind the campaign to look for Richard Plantagenet under the asphalt. With the premiere of The Lost King at the Toronto film festival next month, the monarch is once again caught up in controversy. View image in fullscreen Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley, the leading ‘Ricardian’ and hero of the film, with Steve Coogan, who co-wrote the screenplay and plays Langley’s husband. Historians also disagreed over the fate of his missing corpse: had it been hastily interred after the humiliation of a public parade or thrown into the nearby River Soar? And even when his skeleton was eventually found, the citizens of Leicester and York clashed over where he should be laid to rest. Neither was he the murderer of “the princes in the tower”. Since his death, Richard III’s defenders, known as Ricardians, have argued that he was never the scheming malcontent that his influential detractors, such as Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare, portrayed. I showed their location scout around and offered to explain, as did the university, but no one took us up.” “We are all so surprised that the filmmakers didn’t check with us. “I had to start from scratch, both on the historic work and the modern-day samples from Richard’s living relatives,” said the Canadian-British geneticist. One member of the University of Leicester team, Professor Turi King, carried out key DNA studies, providing conclusive evidence and spending hours in the laboratory.
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