'Red, White & Royal Blue' - The Biggest Differences Between the Movie & Book Revealed
13.08.2023 - 07:55
/ justjared.com
Red, White & Royal Blue, the new Prime Video rom-com starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, is a retelling of a queer love story that was first told by novelist Casey McQuiston.
While the movie is racking up rave reviews from critics and fans alike, it still had to take on the momentum task of squeezing hundreds of pages of a beloved story into two hours of screen time.
Unsurprisingly, that means that there were some big differences between the script and what fans read in the novel. We pulled together some of the most obvious changes and what we know about why they were implemented.
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Perhaps one of the biggest differences between the movie and its source material is that the ruler of Britain is King James III, Prince Henry’s (Galitzine) grandfather, as opposed to his grandmother, Queen Mary.
Director Matthew Lopez explained that he purposefully made that decision during an interview with Us Weekly. It tracks back to the real-life royal family, which was ruled by the late Queen Elizabeth when he was casting.
“While Her Majesty was still alive at the time, I also knew that for most of the life of this film, most people will access it while there is a King of England,” he said. “Between King Charles, Prince William, Prince George — for most of our lifetime, there will always be King of England. And so, I wanted to sort of make sure that the film in some ways made sense to people for a hundred years.”
He added that the chance to cast Stephen Fry in the roll made the change even more tempting.
There were also a couple of changes implemented to Alexander Claremont-Diaz’s (Zakhar Perez) family. His mom (Uma Thurman) is still the first female