Philippa Langley On Digging Up ‘The Lost King’ Richard III After 500 Years – Specialty Preview
deadline.comMuch maligned Richard III finally gets the royal treatment in Stephen Frears’ The Lost King as amateur historian Philippa Langley unearths the monarch’s five century-old remains in a parking lot in Leicester, England in 2012.
Two books and a documentary later, IFC Films presents the feature film version in 750+ theaters. “It took eight years from starting the search, to cutting the tarmac.
To see it telescoped into a hundred or so minutes made it really powerful for me,” Langley, played in the film by Sally Hawkins, told Deadline.
Richard III (1461-1483) is one of Shakespeare’s most malevolent villains, a deformed hunchback usurper and murderer. But historians have contested the portrayal of the last king of the House of York and Plantagenet dynasty, noting history is often (re)written by the victors, in this case the Tudors.
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