A radically changing world - Painting us into a very tight corner
England’s King George III went mad in 1776, and nearly 220 years had to pass, and cinema had to be invented, before his ordeal, and his son’s impatient ambitions, inspired Alan Bennett to write his wonderful 1994 film script about the Regency Crisis.
Should US president Donald Trump’s spiral towards something like King George’s eccentricities continue — and it is difficult to see how his slide might be reversed — a plethora of films seems inevitable. The role of an unhinged President Trump seems a heaven-sent opportunity for Brendan Gleeson to rage at the world as only he can. Saoirse Ronan might play Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who, just like King George’s son, the Prince Regent, seems to have ambitions beyond her capacities. In his incendiary Fire and Fury,
