Gunpowder, Treason & Plot

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Written by	Jimmy McGovern
Directed by	Gillies MacKinnon
Starring	Clémence Poésy Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Tim McInnerny Emilia Fox Michael Fassbender
Music by	John E. Keane
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Cinematography	Nigel Willoughby
Editor	Pia Di Ciaula
Running time	205 min (2 parts)
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	14 March (2004-03-14)^[1] – 21 March 2004 (2004-03-21)

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot is a 2004 BBC miniseries based upon the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI of Scotland. Written by Jimmy McGovern, the series tells the story behind the Gunpowder Plot in two parts, each centred on one of the respective monarchs.^[2]^[3] The first film dramatizes the relationship between Mary (Clémence Poésy) and her third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (Kevin McKidd). Scottish actor Robert Carlyle stars as James VI in the second part, which concentrates on the Gunpowder Plot, planned by Guy Fawkes, to blow up the Houses of Parliament in order to rid the nation of a Protestant monarch.

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Plot

Episode 1 opens with Mary, Queen of Scots, who is in exile in France returning to Scotland in 1561. Mary's second husband is Lord Darnley who participates in the extrajudicial killing of David Rizzio. Mary's son, James I, was sired by Darnley. Mary's final husband is long-time paramour Bothwell.

The opening scene of episode 2 is in Scotland in 1587 showing James I saying, "I have every right to hate you [his mother Mary]."

Cast

Clémence Poésy as Mary, Queen of Scots
- Iona Ruxandra Bratosin as Young Mary
Carmen Ungureanu as Mary of Guise
Steven Duffy as Lord James, half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots
Kevin McKidd as Bothwell
Tadeusz Pasternak as David Rizzio
Maria Popistașu as Lady Marie
Catherine McCormack as Queen Elizabeth I
Gary Lewis as John Knox
Paul Nicholls as Lord Darnley
Robert Carlyle as King James VI and I
Sira Stampe as Anne of Denmark
Tim McInnerny as Cecil
Emilia Fox as Lady Margaret
Michael Fassbender as Guy Fawkes^[4]
Richard Coyle as Robert Catesby
Richard Harrington as Thomas Percy in episode 2
Sam Troughton as Thomas Winter in episode 2

Production

Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, it was filmed in Romania with a Scottish crew. McGovern had previously covered the Plot in the one-hour play Traitors for BBC2's Screenplay strand, transmitted on 5 November 1990.

References

^ "Gunpowder Treason and Plot Begins | the Irish Film & Television Network".
^ "BBC - Press Office - Gunpowder, Treason and Plot".
^ "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot". 4 April 2004.
^ http://www.michaelfassbender.org/maingunpe.html Michael Fassbender

External links

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot BBC Archived from the original
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Gillies MacKinnon

The Grass Arena (1991)
The Playboys (1992)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Small Faces (1996)
Trojan Eddie (1996)
Regeneration (1997)
Hideous Kinky (1998)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
The Escapist (2002)
Pure (2002)
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)
Tara Road (2005)
Castles in the Sky (2014)
Whisky Galore! (2016)
Torvill & Dean (2018)
The Last Bus (2021)

v t e Jimmy McGovern
TV series created by	Cracker (1993–1996, 2006) Hearts and Minds (1995) The Lakes (1997–1999) Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004) The Street (2006–2009) Moving On (2009–2021) Accused (2010–2012) Banished (2015) Broken (2017) Time (2021–present)
Films written	Priest (1994) Go Now (1995) Hillsborough (1996) Dockers (1999) Liam (2000) Sunday (2002) Common (2014) Reg (2016)
Remakes	Accused (2015-2016, France) Accused (2023–present, USA)

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