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Nick
Frost, Simon Pegg
& Edgar Wright outside
The Crown at Wells
February, 2007 |
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'The Crown at Sandford',
as featured in Hot Fuzz
February, 2007 |
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Edgar
Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg behind the bar
The Crown at Wells
February, 2007 |
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Hot Fuzz, 2007
From the makers of the smash
hit comedy, Shaun of the Dead. Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel, finds himself
reassigned to the sleepy village of Sandford.
With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the
city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with
Danny Butterman; an oafish but well meaning young Constable.
Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into
action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as
idyllic as it seems.
Much of Hot Fuzz was filmed in Wells, with The Crown an integral part of the
story and featuring in many of the background shots ~ we are The Crown at Sandford!
The interior of The Crown was, in fact, The Royal Standard of England, England's
oldest freehouse, in Forty Green, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire ~
www.rsoe.co.uk.
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine,
Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Olivia Coleman, Edward Woodward.
In
February, 2007, a special 'premiere' was held in Wells
and we were thrilled to welcome stars of Hot Fuzz,
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with director Edgar Wright, back to The Crown for a
meal in Anton's Bistrot.
For further information and to view the trailer:
www.hotfuzz.com
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Dr Who,
2007 ~ BBC TV
Filmed on
location in Wells Cathedral in October, 2006. It was broadcast on Saturday 5th
May. For further details of the episode, including some fabulous
pictures of the Cathedral, please visit the link below:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2007/306.shtml |
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View the trailer at
http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/trailers/golden_xlarge.htm |
THE
GOLDEN AGE ~ November, 2007
'The
Golden Age' tells the thrilling tale of an era - the story of one woman's
crusade to control love, crush enemies and secure her position as a
beloved icon of the western world. As Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart
conspires with Philip of Spain to topple the throne, Sir Francis
Walsingham, Elizabeth's trusty advisor works tirelessly to protect her
from the many plots and conspiracies against her. Preparing to go to war
to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance royal duties with an
unexpected vulnerability in her attraction to Raleigh.
Cast & Crew
Info:
Cate Blanchett
and Geoffrey Rush reprise the roles they originated in the Academy-award
nominated 'Elizabeth'. Joining them is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh as well
as Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish, Jordi Molla and Rhys Ifans. Shekhar Kapur
directs, from an original screenplay by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst. The
producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Jonathan Cavendish.
Filming in
Wells, Somerset ~ 7th June, 2006
Our fourth and last cathedral on this shoot. Here, we're using the Chapter House
and staircase leading to it as the outer part of Elizabeth's palace. For us this
area represents the portal of the palace - the point between the ordinary world
outside and the rarefied environment of the court within.
Here we meet Raleigh, still an outsider, still just a gentleman of Devon, as he
tries to gain access to this exclusive club. We're hoping in the film to use
these physical spaces to mirror the social differentiations in court society.
Elizabeth stood at the centre of this, a sun in her own solar system, the
ultimate source of all power, wealth and prestige for those around her. The
closer one could get to her, the higher one could climb, but at such heights the
fall could be terrible. Raleigh however is at this stage more concerned with
just getting a foot on the ladder.
Filming in Wells, Somerset ~ 8th June, 2006
Filming on the extraordinary staircase that runs from the north transept to the
Chapter House. For us this is the main route into the palace, a chaotic mix of
petitioners and guards, officials and courtiers. To give a sense of increasing
tension in the movie as war approaches, we have increased the weaponry visible
around the court over time. At the beginning no men at court wear swords and
certainly not in the presence of the queen. By this stage, nearly all the men
are carrying arms - a visible reminder of growing anxiety. On the staircase
today this growing sense of foreboding is heightened by the steady stream of
servants moving valuables and documentation out of the palace to put in a place
of safekeeping in case of invasion. Against this tide Raleigh fights his way
towards court, only to be intercepted on the threshold by Bess who has some
dangerous news for him.
For further information:
http://workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=102
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The Libertine
- 2005
Johnny Depp stars as the
decadent John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester. The film follows the Earl’s
adventures in London, from his passionate romance with a young actress, to the
writing of a scurrilous play which blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very
monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to the Earl’s banishment and
eventual downfall.
Cast includes:
Johnny Depp, Paul Ritter, John Malkovich, Standley Townsend, Tom Holland and
Rosamund Pike.
Filmed on location in Vicar's Close, Wells during 2004. |
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He Knew He
Was Right - BBC Television, 2004
Andrew Davies' adaptation of
Anthony Trollope's novel follows the breakdown of a young couple's marriage,
due to the husband's insecurity and jealousy. Louis (Oliver Dimsdale) and his
wife, Emily Trevelyan (Laura Fraser), are madly in love. Emily's a strong
woman seeking to make her own decisions, but Louis is a fragile man who can't
stand up to her. Through mistrust and lack of communication they head
inexorably for disaster.
Notorious womaniser Colonel
Osborne (Bill Nighy) drives a wedge between the two by visiting Emily too
frequently and causing gossip.
The confrontation between
Louis and his beloved wife over her liaisons with Colonel Osborne drives
Louis into a vortex of misery and, ultimately, madness.
"Trollope moves the story with
extraordinary speed for a 19th century novel," reveals producer Nigel
Stafford-Clark. "He switches the point of view between the two protagonists.
Since it's a tiny misunderstanding that causes the marriage to founder, it's
obviously important to see how both sides think - the title is clearly
ironic."
"It feels startlingly
modern," adds screenplay writer Andrew Davies, who also teamed up with Nigel
for 2001's The Way We Live Now and 2005's Bleak House.
"It's Trollope's take on the
Othello story, and the subject of sexual jealousy is a timeless and universal
one. Almost all of us have had experience of it by the time we've grown up."
An all-star supporting cast
includes future Doctor Who David Tennant, ex-EastEnder Patsy Palmer, plus
veteran drama stars Geoffrey Palmer, Geraldine James, John Alderton, Joanna
David and James Bolam.
Locations in Wells
used during the making of the show include The Rib, Cathedral Green and
Vicar's Close.
Cast:
Bill Nighy, Oliver Dimsdale, Laura Fraser,
David Tennant |
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The Gathering - 2002
While
going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie (Christina Ricci) is hit by
a car driven by Marion Kirkman (Kerry Fox) and loses her memory. Marion
invites Cassie to stay in her huge old house with her family, while recovering
from the trauma. Cassie becomes very close to Michael, the young son of Marion's
husband Simon Kirkman (Stephen Dallane). He is researching a recently discovered
buried church from the First Century, with images of the crucifixion of Jesus
and many anonymous persons watching it.
Cassie starts having visions and
premonitions with some locals, and decides to investigate the weird and nasty
mechanic Frederick Michael Argyle (Peter McNamara). Her findings about who she
is and the mystery relative to the locals and the town surprises her.
The Gathering was filmed in and around Wells Cathedral and Vicar's Close. |
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