'The Queen' will have a sequel - examining Blair's relationship with Clinton and Bush

The screenwriter who penned The Queen is writing a sequel to his acclaimed movie.

The follow-up will examine Tony Blair's relationships with US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush.

It will focus on the then prime minister's reaction to the handover of power in the US between the liberal Clinton and right-winger Bush, reported Variety.

This project will be the third film in Peter Morgan's Blair trilogy, which began with the Channel 4 film The Deal, on the agreement forged between Gordon Brown and Blair on who would take control of the Labour party.

It continued with The Queen, the film about the monarchy's response to the death of the Princess of Wales, which won Helen Mirren an Oscar for her role as the monarch.

Producer Andy Harries was quoted in Variety as saying of the new film: "Peter sees this as a pivotal moment when the special relationship between Britain and America changed.

"Peter always hoped to do a trilogy to mark the Blair years that we've all lived through, but it's been difficult to find the right point at which to look at Blair in power."

Michael Sheen is expected to reprise his role as Blair.

Variety reported that Morgan first considered tackling the events leading up to the Iraq war.

But he decided that the seeds of those events were planted in Blair's difficult adjustment to the transition from Clinton to Bush a few years earlier.