January 7, 2011 –
Tom Hopper’s historical drama, The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter, opened in United Kingdom on this date.
Screenwriter David Seidler stammered as a child, and heard King George VI’s wartime speech as a child. As an adult, he wrote Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (widow of George VI) and asked for permission to use the King’s story to create a movie. The Queen Mother asked him not to make it during her lifetime, saying the memories were too painful. Seidler respected her request.
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