A third technique Hooper employed was the off-centre framing of characters. Hard light was used to give the story a greater resonance and wider-than-normal lenses were employed to recreate the Duke of York's feelings of constriction. Principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. Nine weeks before filming began, the filmmakers learned of the existence of notes written by Logue that were being used by his grandson Mark and Peter Conradi as the basis of a book, and were granted permission to incorporate material from the notes and book into the script. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the essential relationship between the two protagonists. He started writing about the relationship between the therapist and his royal patient as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King's widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, postponed work until her death in 2002. Seidler read about George VI's life after learning to manage a stuttering condition he developed during his own youth. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler.

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