![]() ![]() Indeed, his yearning is so great that he is willing, at considerable pain, to leave behind his wife (Sienna Miller) and young family for years at a time. ![]() Fawcett is in search of a new world, one he believes will be purer and better than the supposedly civilized one from which he hails. It struck me that such imagery could have a particular pull for Christians. Imperceptibly, the bunker walls around them fade away until they’re sitting amidst thick shrubbery and drooping fronds. There is a particularly Wild Things-like moment in which Fawcett-at this point serving in France during World War I-describes his fascination with the Amazon to a spiritualist. Directed by James Gray, with lustrous cinematography by Darius Khondji, the movie allows the mistiness of the jungle to seep into its European-set scenes, so that much of the film shares the same dreamy haze. The world experienced and the world yearned for have suddenly merged.Ī similar movement takes place in The Lost City of Z, a lush, stately adventure drama based on the life of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who first traveled to the Amazon around 1906 and became obsessed with the region, returning there two more times over the course of his life in pursuit of a fabled, ancient city. In Sendak’s illustration, the walls of Max’s room and his bed appear normal, but trees have sprouted up from the floor and along the walls. The BBC’s psychological thriller The Woman in White filmed in the area, as did ITV’s The Frankenstein Chronicles, doubling the city for 1830s London.įor more on The Lost City of Z and its Colombia shoot see an extended article on our sister site KFTV here.There is a wonderful page in the Maurice Sendak picture book Where the Wild Things Are, in which young Max, who has been sent to his room without supper, imagines escaping to a far-off jungle. In production terms, Northern Ireland is best known internationally as the home of HBO’s fantasy drama Game of Thrones, but Belfast is also a popular location for UK television shoots. Other filming locations included Belfast City Hall, Myra Castle and the Castle Ward National Trust property in County Down, as well as the First World War-era ship HMS Caroline, also in Belfast. “Recreating the battlefields of the Somme (at Antrim Hills outside Belfast) was also a very difficult ask on a relatively modest budget – it took a lot of scouting to find exactly the correct geography where we could shoot 360 (degrees) and have the freedom to create the trenches and explosions.” “Given that we were filming a period piece, even the period locations we used were changed - the decor, colours of walls, drapes – any modernity removed – the dressing and all props. “Absolutely everything was changed,” he tells The Knowledge. ![]() Location manager Andrew Wilson helped organise the Northern Ireland leg of the shoot. The Lost City of Z was supported with funding from Northern Ireland Screen. Northern Ireland was the production’s home for around five weeks of filming, shooting entirely on location in and around Belfast and the surrounding countryside. Fawcett also fought in the trenches of the Somme during the First World War. The film tells the tale of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who led expeditions into the Amazon rainforest in search of evidence of a lost civilisation. The Lost City of Z is based on a true early 20th century exploration story and used Northern Ireland as a production base, but also shot on location in Colombia. ![]()
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