Scoop Movie Details:
| Based on | Scoops by Sam McAlister |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Biographical, Drama |
| Release date | 5 April 2024 |
| Running time | 1hr 43min |
| Age rating | TV-14 |
| Starring | Gillian Anderson Keeley Hawes Billie Piper Rufus Sewell |
| Directed by | Philip Martin |
| Written by | Peter Moffat Geoff Bussetil |
| Produced by | Radford Neville Hilary Salmon |
| Cinematography by | Nanu Segal |
| Edited by | Kristina Hetherington |
| Music by | Anne Nikitin Hannah Peel |
| Production Company | The Lighthouse Film and Television Voltage TV |
| Distributor | Netflix |
Scoop Movie Cast & Characters:
- Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis
- Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk
- Billie Piper as Sam McAlister
- Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew
- Romola Garai as Esme Wren
- Richard Goulding as Stewart MacLean
- Amanda Redman as Netta McAlister
- Connor Swindells as Jae Donnelly
- Lia Williams as Fran Unsworth
- Colin Wells as Jeffrey Epstein
- Aoife Hinds as Rebecca
- Paul Popplewell as an editor
- Andrew MacBean as Tony Hall
- Charity Wakefield as Princess Beatrice
Storyline:
The insider account of the inner workings of the Palace and the BBC, twin bastions of the British Establishment, spotlighting the journalists whose tenacity and guts broke through the highest of ceilings and into the inner sanctum and calculations of a man with everything to lose.
About Scoop Movie:
Scoop is a British biographical drama film directed by Philip Martin, starring Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper, and Rufus Sewell. It is a dramatic retelling of the process of securing and filming the 2019 BBC television interview of Prince Andrew by presenter and journalist Emily Maitlis and the production team at the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight. The screenplay by Peter Moffat and Geoff Bussetil is adapted from the 2022 book Scoops by former Newsnight editor Sam McAlister.
The film is a behind-the-scenes story of the women who negotiated with the Buckingham Palace establishment to secure the “scoop of the decade” that was the public catalyst for the downfall of the Duke of York, in a televised interview which focused on Andrew’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of Andrew’s sexual assault of a minor. The interview was later described as less a car crash than “a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion.”
Principal photography commenced in early 2023. Shots of Anderson in costume as Maitlis on set were revealed online in late February 2023.
The film was released on 5 April 2024 on Netflix.
