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The deal on The Deal

3:37 PM Thu, Nov 08, 2007 |
Stephen Becker   E-mail   News tips
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Michael Sheen in Tony Blair film No. 2, The Queen (Miramax)

Tonight, HBO will air The Deal, which is sort of a precursor to The Queen. Directed by Queen director Stephen Frears and written by Queen writer Peter Morgan, The Deal centers on Tony Blair's battle with current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown over the leadership of the Labor party and came out in Britian on TV in 2003. Michael Sheen, who played Blair in The Queen, got to work on his portrayal in The Deal. When he visited Dallas last fall to promote The Queen, he said that he and Frears hope to even make a third film about Blair, but wanted to wait until he was out of office. Now that he is, maybe they can get started on that. (Other fun facts about Sheen: he starred opposite Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon on Broadway, for which Langella won a Tony AND he is Kate Beckinsale's baby daddy.)

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Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 5:38 PM Fri, Nov 09, 2007

Michael Sheen makes a great Tony Blair. I've been hoping that perhaps director David Yates will recruit him to play PM Blair yet again in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which is now in production in the UK. But that would depend on whether Yates films the book's first chapter, "The Other Minister" -- in which a newly elected British PM meets the newly deposed Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge. Fudge then introduces the PM to his Ministry for Magic successor, Rufus Scrimgeour. Yates has said that Scrimgeour will be played by his pal Bill Nighy, but that's IF the Scrimgeour character makes it into the final cut. I hope he does. I'd love to see Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen do that scene together!


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