Prue Batten in her blog post “Spinning Facts to Make Fiction” asks a very valid question:
 
Who of us was there at the time?
 
E.g. over 500 years ago, when King Richard III was buried or at whatever other historic event one researches.
Though whatever exact elements we find out about history, it still remains ‘story’ what we make of those facts.
 
And with the combination of fact and fiction that is exactly the point, where a film comes in and can combine the facts to a gripping ‘story’.
 
Sign our petition to show your interest in a film being made and telling the story of King Richard III.
 
Thank you for your support with the film-petition!
 
 

♛ King Richard Armitage ♛

 
In our combined efforts for the film about King Richard III, we are now 1550 signers of the petition
and that shows that the interest in the project is strong and the King Richard III topic worth showing in a film & movie version.
 
 

As we again have accumulated a large amount of unconfirmed signatures (almost 300 right now), we will send out new confirmation mails to all unconfirmed signers tomorrow.

Only about a handful of those unconfirmed signers have entered invalid mail addresses, but as we are not allowed to give feedback to wrong/corrected mail addresses, even when the error in the mail address is quite obvious, please check your spam/trash-folder and if you did not get a response for your signature from us, please try to sign again.
 
(The Petition software checks double entries, so double signing is prevented!)
 
Thank you for all your help and support!
 
 

♛ King Richard III ♛

Mark the date!
27th of February, 2013 at 9 p.m. on More4
Richard III: The Unseen Story (Channel 4)

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: Should his bones go on display in Leicester Cathedral? By Tim_Healy27 (07.02.2013) – I intentionally left this topic unmentioned here for so long, because I found it quite indecent to even discuss this topic of public exposure of King Richard III’s human remains.
  But now, as I have been asked about our position to this article and asked to mention the poll it contains, want to alert you to this topic. Please vote in a way you would like to be treated if someone after over 500 years found your remains; though it might seem more cruel to a late Medieval person than to us today.
  We also do no longer have the religious belief that the bones of saints hold a special healing power or potential to help and therefore must be displayed in churches to grant access to this saintly ‘magic’. So the displaying would only make sense if we would see King Richard III as a saint. We can interpret his actions in many ways, but to see him as a saint would certainly be a premiere.

 

• BirminghamMail.co.uk: Bury Richard III in Brum: There are more supporters under Aston church than there are under Leicester Cathedral (14.02.2013) – A new competitor for the burial location.

 

• BBC News Wales: Richard III wounds match medieval Welsh poem description (15.02.2013) – Fiction and truth, once again a topic of historic dimensions.

 

• BBC News Leicester: King Richard III’s life and death told through graphic-novel style art (15.02.2013)

 

• Daily Mail Online: How the British weather led to the Battle of Bosworth: Huge storms thwarted previous attacks on Richard III, researchers claim, by Mark Prigg (15.02.2013) – Is the British weather instead of Henry Tudor to blame for the Battle of Bosworth and the death of King Richard III? Interesting question.

 

• Forbes: King Richard III: Villain, Hero, Or Tragic Victim Of Identity Theft? By Naresh Presaud, Oracle Security (15.02.2013) – Explaining the importance of verifying the identity, of finding out that the bones in the carpark really belonged to King Richard III, to a computer generation.

 

• BBC Newsy: Could Richard III give Macbeth an image overhaul? By Colin Wright (16.02.2013) – Richard Armitage appearing at the beginning of the Macbeth-video overview by the BBC, though he did not play Macbeth, but Peter Macduff in this 2005-production of ShakespeaRe-Told.
  
  

  (Source: BBC News – Could Richard III give Macbeth an image overhaul? – 16.02.2013)

 

• CNN: TV Interview, published on YouTube by komedikanal9 (06.02.2013) – Interview with Philippa Langley about the discoveries in Leicester.
  

 

• If you ever wondered what King Richard III and climate warming have in common, this is the definite article for you:
  Record-Searchlight (Blog): King Richard and climate change, by Doug Craig (17.02.2013)