No Special Relationship For Peter Morgan

He'll no longer direct HBO Blair movie Source: Variety Looks like Peter Morgan’s special relationship with Tony Blair movies has taken a slight detour, after the Oscar-nominated writer today bowed out of his directing duties on the upcoming HBO movie, The Special Relationship. The movie, which will examine the relationship between Blair (Michael Sheen, playing the role for a third time) and Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid), would have been the directing debut for Morgan who, of course, wrote The Deal and The Queen, the previous telefilms in which Sheen played Blair. With filming scheduled to start soon, HBO and co-producers, the BBC, have moved quickly to replace him with a fellow Brit, Richard Loncraine. No reason has yet been given for Morgan’s departure, although we wouldn’t be surprised if his recent appointment as writer of... [read full story]                    

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