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Steve Coogan 'proud' of Richard III film as he agrees to pay 'substantial damages' in libel case
Steve Coogan says he is "proud" of his film about the discovery of Richard III's remains after he and two production companies agreed to pay "substantial damages" to a university academic.
The Alan Partridge star, his firm Baby Cow, and Pathe Productions have settled a libel claim over how Richard Taylor was portrayed in the 2022 movie The Lost King after he sued them. Coogan, who co-wrote the screenplay and also starred in the film, said The Lost King was "the story I wanted to tell, and I am happy I did" following the settlement in the High Court on Monday.
The movie tells of how Philippa Langley led the search for the king's skeleton. The lost remains of the Plantagenet monarch, who ruled England between June 1483 and August 1485, were discovered in a Leicester car park in August 2012, more than 500 years after his death.
In June last year, Judge Jaron Lewis ruled that the film portrayed Mr Taylor, who was deputy registrar at the University of Leicester at the time of the discovery, as "knowingly misrepresented facts [about the find] to the media and the public". Mr Taylor was also shown to be "smug, unduly dismissive and patronising.
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