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ALISON BOSHOFF: Bring on the Richard Burtons! Three screen versions of the legendary Welsh actor's life set to come out next year
I can reveal that the life story of the legendary Welsh actor, who was married to Elizabeth Taylor (twice), is to be told in three separate projects.
One film will feature Michael Sheen as Burton; another has landed rising star Harry Lawtey to play the Welshman... and the third may go in a completely different direction, with either Leo Woodall or Richard Madden portraying the actor, who died in 1984. It is an adaptation of Erotic Vagrancy, the blockbuster book about Burton and Taylor by Roger Lewis which dug into their excesses: the diamonds, the private jets, the art, and the morning-to-night boozing, brawling and bedding. But biographers have speculated that the teacher may have groomed and sexually abused his charge, who in later life remarked that he drank 'to overcome the shame' and told an interviewer he'd had a homosexual period but that it 'hadn't worked'.
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