Dir: Stephen Frears.
Scr; Peter Morgan.
Cast: Michael Sheen, David Morrissey, Frank Kelly.
A television film, produced for Channell 4, The Deal depicts the apparent ‘Brown-Blair’ pact where Gordon Brown would not oppose Tony Blair’s standing for Prime Minister in the understanding Brown would eventually succeed him. Beginning in 1983 with their rise in the opposition government, the film ends with a final tense showdown in North London eatery, Granita.
David played Gordon Brown, a role for which he gained two stone and permed his hair. The role won a Royal Television Soceity Award.