The King's Speech
The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
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| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures
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| Running time | 119 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $15 million
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| Box office | $414.2 million
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King George VI: I'm sorry?
Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
King George VI: They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue: (sarcastic) Makes it official then.
- At age 73, David Seidler became the oldest person to ever win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award (Oscar) for this film.
- The film is an Australian co-production, and the first ever Australian film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- King George's first successful attempt at speaking is reciting Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech. Many members of the cast have appeared in productions of Hamlet. Derek Jacobi played the title role in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980), opposite Claire Bloom as Gertrude. In addition he played the Prince in over 400 performances on stage. Jacobi went on to play Claudius in Hamlet (1996), in which Timothy Spall played Rosencrantz. This production also featured Rosemary Harris, mother of cast member Jennifer Ehle. Geoffrey Rush played Horatio in the Australian theater. Helena Bonham Carter played Ophelia in Hamlet (1990).
- The film includes acting depictions of four consecutive British monarchs: King George V (reigning 1910-1936), King Edward VIII (reigning January-December 1936, later known as Duke of Windsor), King George VI (reigning 1936-1952), and Queen Elizabeth II (began reign 1952, still reigning as of 2014).
- Lionel Logue's diary was discovered nine weeks before principal photography began. Quotations from original clinical notes were worked into the screenplay.
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