This is one of the best ideas for a film I’ve heard in a long time. “The Queen” was a fantastic film, and Peter Morgan did a fantastic job with it. One of the key threads in the film was the awkward place in history the monarchy has right now and the relationship between The Queen and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The next film Peter Morgan is working on appears to be a follow up to The Queen, but this time the main character will be Blair himself. The good folks over at Moviehole give us this:
Variety has announced that Peter Morgan has started work on a sequel to ‘’The Queen’’, which will dig into former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s relationships with U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The movie will focus on Blair’s reaction to the handover of power between Clinton, a natural liberal ally, and Bush, who came from the other end of the political spectrum. “Peter sees this as a pivotal moment when the special relationship between Britain and America changed,” says producer Andy Harries.
Tony Blair is one of the most fascinating world figures of my lifetime. Probably one of the most well spoken and respected (at least until the new Iraq stuff broke out) world leaders there has ever been… and trying to delicately balance the relationship with the united States in the radical transition between Bill Clinton and George W Bush must have been insane. A film focusing on this topic is one I would love to see.
