For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

Peter Morgan, playwright and screenwriter of Frost/Nixon, will direct The Special Relationship, a film that marks his directorial debut and the third movie in his Tony Blair trilogy.

Morgan launched the trilogy in 2003 with Stephen Frears’ British TV movie The Deal and followed it with The Queen in 2006, which earned Helen Mirren an Oscar for best actress and a nomination for Morgan for best original screenplay.

Deal tracked the rise of Tony Blair, played by Michael Sheen. The Queen, which also starred Sheen as Blair, centered on the events after the death of Princess Diana. The third movie will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and will again star Sheen as Blair. The actor also stars as David Frost in Morgan’s Frost/Nixon.

Morgan initially planned to focus Relationship on George W. Bush as well as Bill Clinton, but decided to narrow its scope to the intimate relationship between Blair and Clinton between 1997 and 2000.

The writer researched the picture in Washington, D.C., and Little Rock, Ark., last summer.

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