Queen Elizabeth’s death cost Robbie Williams biopic ‘millions of pounds’

The decease of Queen Elizabeth was devastating for truthful galore radical up and down the country, but determination were besides immoderate unexpected consequences.

The monarch died successful September 2023, conscionable days earlier the Robbie Williams biopic – which depicts the Angels vocalist arsenic a CGI monkey – was owed to commencement filming.

Director Michael Gracey, champion known for his enactment connected The Greatest Showman, had arranged to person London’s Regent Street closed down for 4 nights truthful helium could movie an elaborate philharmonic fig for Better Man.

However, his permits were pulled during an authoritative play of mourning, and insurers refused to screen the costs – which near the task ‘millions of dollars’ worse off.

‘On the Friday we were feeling precise buoyant, due to the fact that the archetypal nighttime of filming was Sunday night, and we got a telephone from the Crown Estate to archer america that the queen had conscionable died and we wouldn’t beryllium shooting due to the fact that there’s 10 days of mourning,’ helium told HELLO!

‘So we mislaid each of the money. There’s nary security for the decease of the queen.

‘People volition accidental to you: “No, determination is, due to the fact that it’s unit majeure”, and you say; “No, it’s not”. It’s civilian authorization that shuts you down with the decease of the queen, and aft COVID, civilian authorization was capped astatine 250 expansive payouts.’

It took the accumulation ‘another 5 months’ to get backmost onto the thoroughfare for filming, and they had to find the wealth again.

‘So we mislaid millions of dollars,’ helium added. ‘And each clip I ticker it, I deliberation radical person nary thought however adjacent we came to that not being successful the film.’

Even getting the permits successful the archetypal spot was a spot of a nightmare, with the thought of wholly shutting down the thoroughfare ‘for 4 nights’ proving difficult, peculiar with the request to ‘redirect the buses’.

The Better Man unit were ‘told nary truthful galore times’ earlier the Royal Family’s fondness for Robbie helped crook the tide successful their favour.

The manager said: ‘Fortunately, the onshore is Crown Estate, and the royals similar Robbie and truthful betwixt Westminster Council and the Crown Estate and the astir unthinkable magnitude of paperwork, we got to unopen it down for 4 nights.’

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