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‘Conclave’ Screenwriter Peter Straughan Talks Adapting Robert Harris’ Bestseller, Season 2 Of ‘Wolf Hall’ And Bringing The Beatles’ George Harrison To The Screen


‘Conclave’ screenwriter Peter Straughan talks adapting Robert Harris’ bestseller, Season 2 of 'Wolf Hall' and bringing George Harrison to the screen.

Straughan is currently sailing into awards season with his take on Robert Harris’ 2016 bestseller Conclave, a darkly witty conspiracy drama starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. Directed by Edward Berger, following hard on the heels of his award-winning drama All Quiet on the Western Front two years ago, it starts with the death of the Pope and concerns the efforts of his right-hand man, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes), to find a suitable successor. After Conclave hits U.S. cinemas this week, Straughan will return to the small screen with the second series of Wolf Hall, the smash-hit BBC drama he adapted for director Peter Kosminsky from the labyrinthine historical novels of Hilary Mantel, who passed away in 2022.

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