Red, White & Royal Blue, the new Prime Video rom-com starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, is a retelling of a queer love story that was first told by novelist Casey McQuiston.
While the movie is racking up rave reviews from critics and fans alike, it still had to take on the momentum task of squeezing hundreds of pages of a beloved story into two hours of screen time.
Unsurprisingly, that means that there were some big differences between the script and what fans read in the novel. We pulled together some of the most obvious changes and what we know about why they were implemented. Read more about the biggest changes to Red, White & Royal Blue… Perhaps one of the biggest differences between the movie and its source material is that the ruler of Britain is King James III, Prince Henry’s (Galitzine) grandfather, as opposed to his grandmother, Queen Mary.
Director Matthew Lopez explained that he purposefully made that decision during an interview with Us Weekly.
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