Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pathé has boarded world sales ahead of the AFM on UK comedy-drama The Lost King, inspired by the remarkable 2012 true story of finding Brit monarch King Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park.Steve Coogan has co-written the script with his Stan & Ollie and Philomena collaborator Jeff Pope.
Philomena director and two-time Oscar nominee Stephen Frears is aboard to direct.Coogan will co-star in the film as the husband of Philippa Langley, the woman who undertook the search for King Richard’s remains, which had been lost for more than 500 years.The movie will put a spotlight on Langley, whose obsessive search was derided by many.
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