The fifth season of Netflix’s The Crown devoted a whole episode to Princess Diana’s surprising Panorama interview—an almost-hour-long extravaganza through which the then Princess of Wales opened up concerning the difficulties in her marriage and her struggles together with her psychological well being to the now disgraced Martin Bashir. Greater than 20 years later, it stays probably the most jaw-dropping royal interview ever to be broadcast on the BBC, however there’s a shut second: Prince Andrew’s startling dialog with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019, which noticed the Duke of York focus on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It ought to come as no shock, then, that the streaming large is now turning its lens on the latter with an explosive new characteristic movie.

On February 7, 2023, it was confirmed that Philip Martin—whose earlier directing credit embrace among the most tense episodes from The Crown’s first season—could be helming Scoop, the gripping true story of how the notorious interview was secured. Its log line describes it as an “insider account of the internal workings of the palace and the BBC, twin bastions of the British institution,” which can present how a female-led group landed “the news of the last decade that led to [a] catastrophic fall from grace.” It guarantees to cowl all the saga, from displaying the journalists “navigating palace vetoes, to breaking by means of to Prince Andrew’s internal circle, the excessive stakes negotiations, [the] depth of rehearsals [and] the interview itself.”