According to The Daily Mail, Clemence Poesy is in the final stages of negotiations to play French-born Queen Isabella in Richard II, a new film for the BBC based on one of William Shakespeare’s plays.  Richard II is part of a 4 part series which will also include Henry IV Part 1 & 2 and Henry V.  It will be shot this coming June and July. Clemence is best known for playing Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films and has more recently guest starred on a few episodes of Gossip Girl.  More information on the film may be read below.

Clemence Poesy the Harry Potter star, has been picked to play Richard II’s Queen in an epic film based on Shakespeare’s historical play about the battle for the English crown. Ben Whishaw, who performed a landmark Hamlet for Trevor Nunn at the Old Vic, will play the monarch who believes he has the divine right to be King.

His [Director Rupert Goold] Richard II, though, will be opened out and shot like a proper movie. The drama will boast scale and grandeur. To that end, Andrew McAlpine, who designed An Education and Made In Dagenham, has been contracted as production designer and he, along with Goold and producers Ben Stephenson and Rupert Ryle-Hodges for the BBC, and Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris for Neal Street Productions, are considering using locations such as St David’s Cathedral in Pembrokeshire and Ely Cathedral in Cambridge.