The film will be based on Prince Andrew's catastrophic TV interview with Emily Maitlis. It will go behind the scenes of the Newsnight anchor questioning the king about his acquaintance with convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
Hugh Grant, who starred in Four Weddings and a Funeral, is already being considered for the role of the disgraced Duke of York. The BBC2 Newsnight special will air on November 16, 2019.
Prince Andrew's 'Newsnight' Interview
It was designed to disprove rumors about Prince Andrew's relationship with Epstein, but it turned out to be a PR disaster. The duke was questioned about his ties to the late paedo Jeffrey Epstein, his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, and claims that he had sex with a 17-year-old.
During the questioning, Andrew stated that he had no recall of meeting Virginia Roberts Giuffre, with whom he is accused of having sex at Maxwell's London home. He even offered an alibi, stating he was at a Pizza Express birthday party in Woking with his daughter Princess Beatrice on the night of the alleged meeting.
In August 2019, Epstein took his own life in a detention cell, only a month after being accused of sex trafficking children. Then came a stream of horrifying tales of his assault on young females. Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for torturing and grooming scores of girls for the perverted Epstein. The former maid claims that the convicted sex trafficker and Andrew would flirt with one other while they spent out together on Epstein's famed Caribbean island Little St James.
Following Maxwell's imprisonment, the Duke of York is believed to be the next target of the attorneys' investigation into the sex ring run by multimillionaire pedophile Epstein. In February, the Duke reached an agreement with sex abuse complainant Virginia Giuffre, The Sun reported.
Duke of York's Ties with Jeffrey Epstein
Prince Andrew further stated that the same alleged sexual relationship, which the American claimed began with the prince sweating profusely as they danced at London nightclub Tramp, was factually incorrect since he was suffering from a medical ailment at the time that prevented him from sweating.
He questioned the legitimacy of a photograph that appears to show Andrew as a teenager with his arm around Miss Roberts' waist. Following Ghislaine Maxwell's imprisonment, Prince Andrew came under further pressure this month to speak with the FBI about his pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Her victims believe the duke and other 'cowardly' Epstein allies who 'shelter behind status and reputation' should be prosecuted. Maxwell, 60, will almost certainly serve at least 15 of the 20 years she was sentenced to in a New York court on Tuesday for causing incalculable harm to young girls alongside Epstein.
In the 2000s, Prince spent weeks in Epstein's Florida estate, the so-called 'House of Sin,' where Lady of the House Maxwell ordered youngsters to pose as schoolgirls for underage sex with her lover.
For more than two years, US prosecutors have requested that the British government set up a formal interview with the Duke of Cambridge under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. The Home Office has yet to act, and a dispute between the duke's legal team and US prosecutors over the terms of any FBI interview in London persists.
Maxwell, the daughter of media billionaire Robert Maxwell met Andrew while studying history at Oxford in the early 1980s, and the prince later brought her and her lover Epstein to Windsor Castle and Sandringham, as per Daily Mail.
Sam McAlister, who got the story for the BBC, spent months attempting to get the interview before visiting Andrew, his private secretary Amanda Thirsk, and oldest daughter Princess Beatrice at the Palace. She claimed that at this time the Duke revealed his Pizza Express alibi and his astounding assertion that he couldn't sweat due to a medical ailment.
McAlister stated that Andrew consented to the discussion because, "no one thinks they're going to do a horrible interview." She also stated that the Queen's second son did not look apprehensive while they chatted before the interview. McAliser, a skilled attorney, went on to say that she could "never" have imagined the consequences of the explosive interview, according to Express.
@YouTube