Simon Egan

In 2005, a small production company in London received the script.

The owner, Joan Lane, started talking with Simon Egan and Gareth Unwin of Bedlam Productions, and they invited Seidler to London to rewrite the play again, this time for the screen.

So it's funny, his wife had told him, "Why don't you write this as a play so that you can focus more seriously simply on the relationship between the king and Logue?" And instead, when he got this script to the people that were presumably going to make it into a play, they said, "Yeah, that's a good idea by your wife.

Focus on that relationship, but let's go back to making it a movie."

I'm, I apologize.

I'm trying to think of movies right off the top of my head that, that happened to, but that's, that's happened, uh, quite a few times with some very well-known movies.

So Simon Egan and Gareth Unwin with Bedlam Productions decide to do a reading of this play/movie, whatever it was gonna be.

Essentially, the script was going to be read at Pleasance Theatre, a small house in North London, to a group of Australian expatriates, among whom Tom Hooper's mother.