Leigh himself has said: “There has never been a feature film about the Peterloo massacre.
The blockbuster project is possible because of a lucrative co-financing deal from Amazon Studios, which will distribute the film in America.
It is expected that the streaming service, which unlike Netflix shows its films in cinemas, may bring Peterloo to Cannes next spring.
In May, Amazon brought Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck to the Cannes film festival alongside the British director Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here.