You've united a divided nation under one religion, and consolidated power while rebuffing both suitors and claimants to the throne. You've just defeated the greatest naval force in European history. For goodness sakes, a large tract of previously undiscovered land in an entirely "New World" was just named in your honor. If you're Queen Elizabeth, where the heck do you go from there?

You move inward, said "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" director Shekhar Kapur, who hopes to ultimately make a third film about the great monarch in what he's calling a "trilogy of power."

"[Princess] Diana was divine, but she was divine in death. Most people we know are divine in death," Kapur explained. "[But] Elizabeth was divine in life. She goes beyond being a mere mortal. How do you come to terms with that? That is the third part [of this story]." Read more...