Netflix has acquired “Scoop,” a feature film about the 2019 interview Prince Andrew gave about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein that effectively ended his career as a royal. The film will star Rufus Sewell as Andrew and Gillian Anderson as BBC presenter Emily Maitlis, who conducted the interview.
Based on the memoir “Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews” by Sam McAlister, “Scoop” also stars Billie Piper, who will play McAliester, and Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk, former private secretary to Prince Andrew.
The film aims to go behind the scenes of the interview, which Andrew gave following the death of Jeffrey Epstein when his ties to the wealthy pedophile became widely known and he was accused of sexual assault by one of Epstein’s victims.