ALISON BOSHOFF: Bring on the Richard Burtons! Three screen versions of the legendary Welsh actor's life set to come out next year
Daily MailYou wait years for a film about Richard Burton — then two come along at once. I can reveal that the life story of the legendary Welsh actor, who was married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to be told in three separate projects. I can reveal that the life story of Richard Burton is to be told in three separate projects One film will feature Michael Sheen as Burton It is an adaptation of Erotic Vagrancy, the blockbuster book about Burton and Taylor by Roger Lewis which dug into their excesses: the diamonds, the private jets, the art, and the morning-to-night boozing, brawling and bedding. Called Mr Burton, it stars Toby Jones as Philip Burton, the teacher at Port Talbot Secondary School who spotted the potential and 'obvious virility' of Richard Jenkins, played by Harry Lawtey. Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor Called Mr Burton, it stars Harry Lawtey as Richard Jenkins, and Toby Jones as Philip Burton, the teacher at Port Talbot Secondary School But biographers have speculated that the teacher may have groomed and sexually abused his charge, who in later life remarked that he drank 'to overcome the shame' and told an interviewer he'd had a homosexual period but that it 'hadn't worked'.
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