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‘Red, White & Royal’ Blue Director Matthew López Tried Adapting ‘The Song of Achilles’ as a Limited Series
'Red, White & Royal Blue' director Matthew López discusses the importance of queer stories on television and wanting to adapt 'The Song of Achilles.'
But López, who won a Tony for “The Inheritance,” defied the odds last fall with Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s “Red, White & Royal Blue,” a love story of geopolitical proportions between Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the bisexual son of the President of the United States (Uma Thurman), and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), the gay grandson of the British monarch (Stephen Fry). Instead, he eyed another adaptation that carries even higher expectations — Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles.” The bestselling book retells the story of the Trojan War through the perspective of Patroclus and his romantic relationship with the mythological hero, Achilles. López never got the full story of why it all fell apart, but he holds no ill will.“If I am Madeline Miller and I have written a book as beloved as that, I would probably want to be pretty circumspect about what I did with it because you generally only get to do it once,” he reasons.
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