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Langley was played by Sally Hawkins in the 2022 comedy-drama film, The Lost King, a dramatisation of her search for Richard III. [ 26 ] [ 2 ] Langley appears in a cameo appearance in the cathedral during the reburial.
It is a dramatisation of the story of Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), the woman who initiated the search to find King Richard III's remains under a car park in Leicester, and her treatment by the University of Leicester in the claiming of credit for the discovery.
The Lost King tells Philippa Langley’s remarkable story: her discovery of the lost grave of King Richard III of England (1452-1485). The filmmakers utilised Philippa’s books, TV documentary (Richard III: The King in the Car Park), original archive, and materials including eye witness testimony to bring her story to life on the big screen.
Oct 6, 2022 · The Lost King suggests Phillipa Langley had to battle the university every step of the way – whether to dig, where to dig, what to do with the remains after the dig – and that the academics tried...
Dec 22, 2022 · Shortly after the body of Richard III had been discovered under a car park in Leicester, in the UK’s midlands, a journalist approached Philippa Langley to ask whether he could share her taxi to the railway station. Langley had found the king’s body and organised the dig that exhumed him.
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Mar 23, 2023 · Written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, who scripted the 2013 Judi Dench movie Philomena, The Lost King stars Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley, the British writer and television producer...
Oct 7, 2022 · The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by...
