It only feels a minute ago that Netflix‘s Scoop movie was bedecking advertising hoardings in Times Square but the Prince Andrew interview projects are coming thick and fast and here are first looks at Michael Sheen as the prince and Ruth Wilson as Emily Maitlis in Amazon‘s A Very Royal Scandal.
The Prime Video retelling, which launches September 19, is across three episodes and will revisit the 2019 interview that effectively brought down the prince and ended his role in public life.
Sheen is the prince and Wilson plays Maitlis, whose BBC Newsnight interview about the scandalous accusations Andrew faced regarding his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre sent shockwaves around the world. A Very Royal Scandal follows the action of Maitlis and Andrew in the lead-up to the interview, the ground-breaking event itself and the many questions left in its wake that would change their lives forever. It is the latest in the loose …Scandal series, which has seen Amazon co-produce A Very British Scandal and A Very English Scandal with the BBC. The BBC, however, is not involved with the Prince Andrew project.
Along with Sheen and Wilson, the series will star Joanna Scanlan (After Love, Notes on a Scandal) as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (Your Christmas or Mine?) as Sir Edward Young, Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) as Stewart Maclean and Claire Rushbrook (Secrets & Lies) as Sarah Ferguson. The series will launch September 19.
Maitlis is EPing this project, unlike Scoop, which was based on two chapters in the book by Newsnight producer and celeb booker extraordinaire Sam McAlister. McAlister was absent from today’s Amazon promo. Scoop starred Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell as leads.
The series was directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Jeremy Brock. It was produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Jeremy Brock, Jarrold, and Maitlis serve as executive producers. Josh Hyams serves as a producer on the series.
