Netflix is ready to launch SCOOP, a brand new biopic film looking behind the scenes of the BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis on April fifth, 2024. Right here’s the most recent on all the pieces you have to know.
The brand new film can be a “behind-the-scenes account” of the well-known interview aired on BBC Newsnight on November sixteenth, 2019. Prince Andrew was interviewed by veteran journalist Emily Maitlis and addressed latest and rising allegations that related him to Jeffrey Epstein.
SCOOP takes a have a look at how the BBC scored the interview, which had profound results on the long run function of Prince Andrew inside the Royal Household and the continued case surrounding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Based mostly on the account offered by producer Sam McAlister and her memoir Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Stunning Interviews. Per GoodReads, right here’s what the e book, first revealed in July 2022, is about:
“She is the lady who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as ‘a airplane crashing into an oil tanker, inflicting 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 the very best information will get made, but additionally the modifications to the BBC, the way forward for ‘mainstream media’ within the age of clickbait and the function of energy and privilege in shaping our media panorama.”
Netflix’s logline for the undertaking expands additional, speaking in regards to the themes you possibly can count on:
“SCOOP is the insider account of the inside workings of the Palace and the BBC, twin bastions of the British Institution, spotlighting the journalists whose tenacity and guts broke by means of the very best of ceilings – and into the inside sanctum and calculations of a person with all the pieces to lose.”
As a primer, all the interview stays obtainable on the BBC Information YouTube Channel, which has over 8.5 million views and may be discovered embedded beneath:
Netflix first introduced the undertaking in February 2023, coinciding with the characteristic movie heading into manufacturing. The undertaking had been in improvement earlier than the Netflix pickup. Deadline first reported in 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 for a lead function (which he subsequently denied).
On the time of getting picked up, Sam McAlister mentioned:
“It’s past my wildest goals, particularly as a primary time author, to finish up working with this extraordinary solid, Netflix, and the superb groups at The Lighthouse and Voltage. Watching Billie Piper, one among my favorite actresses, play “me” can be a pinch myself second and I’m really thrilled to be concerned on this movie.”
Who’s within the solid for Netflix’s Scoop?
Pictured: Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell
4 solid members have been confirmed to star within the film to date.
Gillian Anderson (Intercourse Schooling, The Crown, The Fall) will play Emily Maitlis, Newsnight’s former lead presenter and now a number for the podcast The Information Brokers for World Radio.
Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Stonehouse, It’s a Sin) will play Amanda Thrisk, the previous Personal Secretary to Prince Andrew.
Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie, Physician 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.
Rounding out the solid consists of:
Romola Garai (Atonement) as Esme Wren
Aoife Hinds (Regular Folks) as Rebecca
Richard Goulding (Me Earlier than You) as Stewart Maclean
Gavin Spokes (Home of the Dragon) as Mark Harrison
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Who’s behind Netflix’s Scoop?
Emmy and BAFTA winner Philip Martin – Image: Getty Photographs
Emmy and BAFTA winner Philip Martin is connected to direct the undertaking. He’s beforehand labored on Night time Sky for Prime Video and Catherine the Nice for HBO.
Martin can also be no stranger to overlaying the Royal Household on display screen, 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 quite a few episodes.
In a press release, Martin commented on the brand new film, saying:
“I’m thrilled to be directing this movie for Netflix and – along with a unprecedented solid – to be bringing Sam McAlister’s revelatory insider’s account to the display screen. Uptempo, immersive and cinematic, I wish to put the viewers contained in the breath-taking sequence of occasions that led to the interview with Prince Andrew – to inform a narrative a couple of seek for solutions, in a world of hypothesis and ranging recollections. It’s a movie about energy, privilege and differing views and the way – whether or not in glittering palaces or hi-tech newsrooms – we choose what’s true.”
SCOOP is produced by Hilary Salmon and Radford Neville(Luther, MotherFatherSon) for The Lighthouse Movie & Tv, with Sanjay Singhal (Bother at Topshop) for Voltage TV.
When will SCOOP be launched on Netflix?
As revealed completely by This Morning on ITV – SCOOP will debut on Netflix globally on April fifth, 2024.
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