It was a true story stranger than fiction: The body of England’s King Richard III, missing for centuries, was discovered under a parking lot after a search spearheaded by amateur sleuths.
Now a movie about the saga has been accused of stretching the truth too far.
The producers of “The Lost King” on Monday agreed to pay damages to an academic who sued for libel over his on-screen depiction.
Richard Taylor said he suffered “enormous distress and embarrassment” because of the 2022 film, which centers on amateur historian Philippa Langley’s quest to find the king’s remains despite what the movie depicts as indifference and condescension from the academic world.
A judge at a preliminary hearing last year said the film portrayed Taylor, the former deputy registrar at the University of Leicester, as “smug, unduly dismissive and patronizing.”
The case had been due to go to a full trial, but on
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