The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004 television film directed by Stephen Hopkins
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 biographical film about the life of English comedian Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis's book of the same name. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins and stars Geoffrey Rush as Sellers, Miriam Margolyes as his mother Peg Sellers, Emily Watson as his first wife Anne Howe, Charlize Theron as his second wife Britt Ekland, John Lithgow as Blake Edwards, Stephen Fry as Maurice Woodruff and Stanley Tucci as Stanley Kubrick.

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Simon Bosanquet
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121 minutes
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  • May 21, 2004 (2004-05-21) (Cannes)
  • October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01) (United Kingdom)
  • December 5, 2004 (2004-12-05) (United States)
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Anne Sellers: (shouting) I'm fucking bored of the little boy! Why can't you be a man? You're a miserable, lying shit I hate you.
  • Reunites Geoffrey Rush and Mackenzie Crook, both who appeared in the many films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
  • Michael Sellers had a turbulent relationship with his father, but he always tried to defend his legacy. When the film was released, Michael scolded director Stephen Hopkins. He didn't enjoy the way his father was portrayed as clinically insane in the book the film is based upon. He described the book as "400 pages of rubbish." This forced Hopkins to go to Cannes in an attempt to appease Michael.
  • In the original concept, the screenwriters wanted Peter Sellers to comment on himself through his own characters as they sat around the War Room set from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). The idea was dropped because it would have been prohibitively expensive in royalties. As an alternative they decided to have Sellers speak about himself through the characters from family and colleagues.
  • Peter Sellers did not give a pony to his son Michael as shown in the film. He gave it to his younger daughter by Britt Ekland years later. The change was made in order to compress events for dramatic purposes. According to the screenwriter, the horse disappeared after a couple of weeks, and when his daughter wanted to know where it was, he replied that he had given it to Princess Margaret.
  • Steve Coogan was at one point considered to play Peter Sellers.

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