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The Lost King is a 2022 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope. It is a dramatisation of the story of Philippa Langley, the woman who initiated the search to find King Richard III's remains under a car park in Leicester. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Coogan, and Harry Lloyd. The film was produced by Pathé, Baby Cow Productions, BBC Film[2] and Ingenious Media, and distributed by Pathé in France and Switzerland as a standalone distributor, and in the UK via Warner Bros. Pictures. The film premiered in Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2022, and was released in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2022.[3][4]

The Lost King
Directed by	Stephen Frears
Written by	Steve Coogan Jeff Pope
Produced by	Steve Coogan Christine Langan Dan Winch
Starring	Sally Hawkins Steve Coogan Harry Lloyd Mark Addy Lee Ingleby James Fleet
Cinematography	Zac Nicholson
Edited by	Pia Di Ciaula
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Production companies	Pathé Baby Cow Productions BBC Film British Film Institute Ingenious
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures (United Kingdom) Pathé Distribution (France/Switzerland)
Release dates	10 September 2022 (2022-09-10) (TIFF) 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) (UK)
Running time	108 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Cast

Production

In November 2020, it was announced that Stephen Frears was set to direct the film, based on a screenplay written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, and co-starring Coogan.[5] In March 2021, it was announced that Sally Hawkins had joined the cast, as amateur historian Philippa Langley.[6] Principal photography began in April of that year,[7] and took place across a variety of locations in the Edinburgh area, including Morningside[8] and Newtongrange.[9]

Release

On 28 July 2022, it was announced The Lost King would have its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival,[10] and would be released in UK cinemas on 7 October 2022.[11] IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film.[12]

Controversy

Based on the trailer, some of the lead archaeologists involved in the story did not feel that the film's presentation as "the true story" was correct, and that it had under-represented their involvement, and over-represented Langley's financial input to the project.[13] Langley contends that the archaeologists took undue credit for finding the remains of Richard III given that she had led the search, raised the funding for the dig and commissioned the archaeologists.[14] Following the UK première of the film the University of Leicester issued a press release, including the following abstract:

We worked closely with Philippa Langley throughout the project, and she was not sidelined by the University. Indeed, she formed part of the team interview panel for every single press conference connected to the King.

The suggested whereabouts of the King's remains was public knowledge prior to Philippa's intervention, however [sic], we recognise she was the positive driving force behind the decision to dig for Richard III.[15]

Langley issued a rebuttal, calling the University's statement "misleading":

Contrary to the misleading media statement issued by the University, I did feel side-lined (and continue to feel side-lined) by the University wrongly taking my credit for leading the search for the King's remains. The only press conference that mattered was the one on 4 February 2013 to confirm that the remains were those of Richard III. That conference was the one attended by the world's media. I was not invited by the University to sit on the panel that faced the journalists and the University wrongly presented themselves as leading the search that I had commissioned and paid for. It is true the University invited me to address the conference but as the 13th of 13 speakers, long after the live TV news feed had ended.

As for the general whereabouts of the extensive Greyfriars precinct – where some (not all) believed Richard III might be buried – yes this was known, but no one knew the layout of the buildings and therefore where the Greyfriars Church itself (and therefore the body of the King) might be (if he wasn't in the River Soar as most leading historians then believed). Only through my intuition and research was the precise area identified where the dig should take place. In a matter of hours of starting to dig, the King's remains were revealed. If the University (and everyone else) knew exactly where to dig, why hadn't they done so before?[16]

Richard Taylor said to the BBC:

I'm portrayed as kind of a bullying, cynical, double-crossing, devious manipulator which is bad, but then when you add to that I behave in a sexist way and a way that seems to mock Richard III's disabilities, you start to get into the realm of defamation.[17]

The filmmakers responded to Taylor by saying:

The university's version of events has been extensively documented over the past 10 years. Philippa's recollection of events, as corroborated by the filmmakers' research, is very different.[17]

Taylor has stated that he is "likely" to take legal action against the filmmakers over its inaccuracies.[18]

Reception

Critical reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 66% of 38 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "The movie's curiously bland compared to the remarkable real-life story it dramatizes, but Sally Hawkins' performance saves The Lost King from feeling like a royal disappointment."[19] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 57 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[20] Hawkins' performance has been met with critical acclaim. The Evening Standard's four-star review stated "Sally Hawkins is Oscar-worthy".[21] Likewise, Heat[22] and iNews[23] gave the film four out of five stars, with the latter stating "Coogan is marvellous". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film two stars out of five, commenting on the "uneven" nature of the script and that scenes with Richard III "make the film odd and unrelaxed",[24] while these scenes were praised in Matthew McMillan's four-star review for The Upcoming, for imbuing the film "with an offbeat allure", describing the film as "a treat […] spearheaded by Hawkins's performance, and guided by the dexterity of Frears's craft".[25] Kevin Maher of The Times also gave the film two stars, remarking, "The Lost King is oddly petty, with a cast of characters essentially shouting, like the seagulls in Finding Nemo: 'Mine! Mine! Mine!'"[26]

References

External links

• Official website
• The Lost King at IMDb
• The Lost King at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] The Lost King

The Lost King ist ein Filmdrama von Stephen Frears, das im September 2022 beim Toronto International Film Festival seine Premiere feierte und im Oktober 2022 in die Kinos im Vereinigten Königreich kommen soll. Der Film erzählt die wahre Geschichte von der Entdeckung der sterblichen Überreste des englischen Königs Richard III. durch die Amateurhistorikerin Philippa Langley im Jahr 2012, die von Sally Hawkins gespielt wird.

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- [en] The Lost King

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[ru] Пропавший король

«Пропавший король» (англ. The Lost King) — художественный фильм режиссёра Стивена Фрирза по сценарию Стива Кугана и Джеффа Поупа. Главные роли в фильме исполнили Салли Хокинс, Стив Куган и Гарри Ллойд.

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