exclusive : A Murdoch Marriage

In a low key ceremony Elisabeth Murdoch the daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married artist Keith Tyson (right)
Various members of the Murdoch clan gathered at Elisabeth's Cotswold farm in the UK this weekend including father Rupert and his partner Jerry Hall, Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch and flying in from New York where they now live, her mother Anna Mann and her partner William (pictured below).

Among the influential and powerful guests, former UK PM David Cameron and wife Samantha, the controversial News Corp head honcho Rebekah Brooks and Emily Oppenheimer heir to the South Africa diamond fortune.
Noticeably absent was Elizabeth's previous two husbands, publicity guru Matthew Freud and Dutch economist Elkin Pianim.
Now that's a real power get-together. Below is a sample of Tyson's work

Did Rebekah Make a Secret Visit To Sydney?

Alexander Tristran Duff Brodie

The endless round of product launches in Sydney can be tiring at times, especially when what passes for the social media in this town present some very dubious characters as 'socialites'.

Brodie Castle

How pleasing then to be invited to the annual Brodie Clan get together -The Grand Bannockburn Ball at the inner west suburban Petersham Town Hall. We sent a Shuttle operative along to get a few snaps and a short film.

 The Brodies are a clan whose origins are slightly obscure as the rival Gordon Clan pillaged and burnt Brodie Castle near Inverness in 1645 destroying their historical records. They were like that these Scottish clans. Always at war with each other.

That castle was re-built and still stands today and is run by the Scottish National Trust. You can rent out apartments in it for the weekend.  The landlord of Brodie Castle and the 27th Chief of Clan Brodie   flew in from Scotland as a special guest for the night. He's the wonderfully named Alexander Tristran Duff Brodie who wrapped himself in the new Brodie Clan flag for our cameras.

But on viewing some film of Alexander being piped in something caught our eye. He's accompanied by a tall flame haired woman who looks suspiciously like Rebekah Brooks the Fleet Street Titan just released from police questioning.
Did she make a secret visit to Sydney 3 weeks ago ?. Looking for a bolt hole, knowing her collar was about to be felt by the Old Bill?. The Murdoch's are another Scots clan and Uncle Rupert did famously say when asked what his first priority was.."to look after her !" We should be told.

Petersham celebrates an erection.

Hack Watch #2 "Hackgate-The Movie"

Murdoch The Movie-The Empire Strikes Back

Getty/The Beast

In January the Shuttle brought news of a proposed movie based on the life of Rupert Murdoch-the Sun King who has arrived in London to try and stem the fallout from the great hacking scandal.

Getty/The Beast

'Murdoch' the movie was commissioned by the UK's Channel 4 and written by TV script writer Jesse Armstrong but 4 decided against making it. It's now being handled by a top agency Creative Artist's Agency who are looking for a producer and backer.  Presumably Fox Studios won't be bidding for the rights any time soon.

Colin Myler- editor of the late NoTW (Getty/The Beast)

The script blurb reads : "As his family gathers for his birthday party, Rupert Murdoch tries to convince his elder children to alter the family trust so that his two youngest children by his newest wife will have voting rights in the company."  The events of the last week must surely mean that it's just a matter of time before this film is made.

All movie scripts evolve over time and we proposed a number of actors to take leading roles including Barry Humphries (manager of gigastar Dame Edan Everage) as Rupert Murdoch (he's already played him in the Hitler Diaries) and Hayden Christensen as the good looking James Murdoch.

New characters have moved into the frame though, so to speak. In particular Rebekah Brooks the CEO of Murdoch's News Corporation who from all reports, Rupert regards as  one of the family. And Andy Coulson the hapless former adviser to British PM David Cameron.

Fortunately The Daily Beast has come up with an updated cast list which looks spot on and you can see from our pictures some of the proposed new cast for the movie.
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As the scandal swirled around the News Corp bunker at Wapping in East London and in the offices of the 168 year old tabloid News of The World, journalists were already seething over the flame haired CEO of News Corp and the former editor of the newspaper Rebekah Brooks who most of the hacks had come to the conclusion had led the the tabloid into treacherous waters with her 'take no prisoners' style of editing.

There are reports of writers being berated for up to an hour at the 11am editorial meeting and tales of younger journalists fleeing to the toilets in tears over Ms Brooks threats that they would receive their marching orders unless  they came up with a major celebrity or political based piece of scandal to fill the pages.

In it's final weeks a YouTube video was doing the rounds-unbeknown to Rebekah-that was viewed with glee by the staff. It's a clip from a movie called Vile Pervert produced by pop mogul Jonathan King who spent time as a guest of Her Majesty and has often complained that the tabloid unfairly distorted reporting of his predicament.