With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall leading the cast, legal drama Denial is now shooting, but has found room for Spectre and Sherlock’s Andrew Scott.
Though we normally expect to find him as a wrong ‘un these days (he was one of the main antagonists, besides the title character’s ego in Victor Frankenstein too), Scott this time will be a solicitor named Anthony Julius.
Adapted by David Hare from Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History On Trial: My Day In Court With A Holocaust Denier, the film will find Lipstadt (Weisz) fighting a legal battle for truth against David Irving (Wilkinson), who sued her for libel when she labelled him a holocaust denier. It was up to Lipstadt and her team to prove the vital legal truth that the Holocaust was a real event.
Mick Jackson is directing the film now in London with Caren Pistorious, Jack Lowden, Alex Jennings and Harriet Walter in the cast. While Scott won’t show up in the Victorian times Sherlock special on New Year’s Day (unless the gang is being really sneaky), but he will be seen in the new Swallows And Amazons and Alice Through The Looking Glass, the latter of which lands here on May 27.