Colin Firth played King George VI in the film version of The King's Speech

A four-month West End run for the stage version of Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech has been announced.

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The production was originally planned to be a play by writer David Seidler before it was adapted into the hugely successful film starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.

When it opens at Wyndham’s Theatre on March 22 The King’s Speech will feature the same cast as the touring production, with Charles Edwards as King George VI and Jonathan Hyde as speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Seidler, who won one of the film’s four Oscars for his screenplay about how the king overcame his stammer, first worked on the project in the late 1970s, but he dropped it 30 years ago after being asked by the Queen Mother’s private secretary not to pursue it during her lifetime.

He returned to it in 2005 and the script was eventually picked up by director Tom Hooper and turned into the hit film.

The stage production has also been well received by critics.