Deadline reports A24 will release Roger Michell’s documentary about Queen Elizabeth II’s historic reign, Elizabeth. It is described on the film’s website as “a truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.”
The late great British director, known for classics like Notting Hill, The Duke, Hyde Park on Hudson, and My Cousin Rachel, finished Elizabeth just days before his death last September, he was 65.
Michell described his vision for the film in his director’s statement on its website:
“She is the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch. Ever. She is the longest-serving female head of state in the history of the world, the world’s oldest living monarch, the longest-reigning current monarch, and the oldest and longest-serving current head of state. More people dream about the Queen than any other living person.”
“She’s the Mona Lisa, instantly recognizable, and yet elusively and perpetually unknowable. She’s more famous than The Beatles. She’s a Queen in a castle in a fairy story. Or the Queen in a hard-hat opening a recycling factory,” Michell added. “And you don’t have to be a monarchist to have the Queen in your head. All around her time and the world swirls like a tropical typhoon: everything in the canvas changes, absolutely everything … Except her. Elizabeth.”
Kevin Loader (The Death of Stalin) is producing the film, and five-time Oscar nominee George Fenton (Groundhog Day, You’ve Got Mail) is listed as the film’s composer.
Loader revealed, “Roger literally finished this last film the day before he left us. His film contains all his trademark emotion and playfulness, combined with a proper search for truthful insight into the woman who was Queen when most of us were born, and still is.”
Elizabeth will see a 2022 release.
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