– 11 of the best films to watch this October – The buried ship found on an English estate However, the actual digging was planned and carried out by archaeologists from the University of Leicester and now the university is up in arms at its depiction in the film, written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope and starring Sally Hawkins as Langley and Coogan as her ex-husband John. She was the driving force behind an excavation carried out in a car park in Leicester in 2012 which, incredibly, uncovered the bones of the last Plantagenet king.
Released today in UK cinemas, after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival last month, The Lost King is based on the extraordinary real-life story of amateur historian Philippa Langley's search for the lost remains of Richard III.
But the character of Basil Brown needs no fictionalized drama.It would be an irony that Shakespeare might have appreciated if a film revolving around a quest to clear the name of one Richard were to tarnish the name of another. Other events like the dramatic cave in are also fictionalized. His relationship with Piggot, therefore, veers into historical drama-fiction that includes but diverges from historical facts. The only entirely fictional character in The Dig is Rory (Johnny Flynn). The Dig fictionalizes some character relationships. The objects intimated a rich Anglo-Saxon culture, which, at the time of its discovery, greatly enhanced historians' limited knowledge of so called “Dark Ages” Europe. The funeral itself would have been an enormous occasion, and the was so enormous, it could probably be seen from the river below when people sailed by.”īrown’s excavations yielded 263 objects from the ship, including valuables, armor, tools, and weapons.
We can imagine it involved huge groups of people. “The very act of dragging a ship up from the river downhill, digging a hole big enough to contain the ship, and building the burial chamber, is almost like a piece of theater.
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