Steve Coogan said his film about the discovery of the remains of Richard III was ‘the story I wanted to tell, and I am happy I did’ after he and two production companies settled a High Court libel claim over the portrayal of a university academic.

The High Court heard earlier on Monday that Coogan, his production company Baby Cow, and Pathe Productions had agreed to pay ‘substantial damages’ over the portrayal of Richard Taylor in the 2022 film, The Lost King, after Taylor had sued for libel.

The film follows Philippa Langley and her search to find the Plantagenet king’s skeleton, which was discovered in a Leicester car park in 2012, more than 500 years after his death.

In June last year, Judge Jaron Lewis ruled that the 2022 film portrayed Taylor, who was deputy registrar at the Univer

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