Emperor of China, The
Genre(s): Period Drama
Logline:
After losing his job as Ambassador in Paris for seducing the English King's daughter, Rafe Montagu betrays his king, marries a lunatic and wins a dukedom.
Synopsis:
The second son of a minor 17th Century nobleman, Rafe wins a Dukedom with the help of four brilliant, scheming women: his sister Lady Harvey, his mistress Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, his friend Hortense, Duchesse de Mazarine, and his first wife Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland. Widowed in his 50s, Rafe pretends to be the Chinese Emperor to win the hand of a lunatic heiress.
This true story unfolds in London, Paris and Northamptonshire.
Author Info:KATHARINE MONTAGU is a British Citizen and a Canadian Resident. After five years of globe trotting, she settled in Vancouver in 1990, completed a BFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and spent three years researching and writing The Emperor of China. Katharine works as a writer and story editor. She has produced five short films and various corporate and promotional videos. She won a BC Film Producing Internship in 2003. She has a number of other screenplays at various stages in development.
BC Film awarded The Emperor of China development funding in the Fall of 2001. Kat continues to work with her Praxis story editor John Frizzell. This script is not available for option... yet.
KATHARINE MONTAGU, Writer
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