4040 FILM & TV Fold-out fi lm & TV location map inside A guide to visiting Film and TV locations in Britain From Sherlock’s London to the magic of Harry Potter © BBC/Hartswood Films PIC CREDIT 01_FC_FilmTVGB_Cover 2016 final.indd 40 03/06/2016 10:03 TM & © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter Publishing Rights © JKR. TM & © 2016 Warner WARNER BROS IFC.indd 1 18/05/2016 15:41 OPENING LETTER WELCOME STUDIO HEAD: DAN DARK ilm in the UK is in for the plains of Africa – undergoing a golden age: extraordinary what you can do 2015 was a record year at with a bit of technical wizardry. F the box office, with takings Towards the beginning of of just over £1.2bn, while film my own film career, when I production in the UK had its worked in special effects, I’d second best year (just beaten by be blowing things up. Now I’m 2014), with £1.4bn spent across running Warner Bros. Studios more than 200 films. High-end Leavesden, which is undergoing television production increased yet another expansion by 20 per cent. programme, I spend my time As well as the great actors in Making of Harry Potter. building things. I’m proud of front of the camera, we have We also have some of the the film and TV industry we arguably the greatest behind- most spectacular locations. have created in the UK, and the-scenes talent in the world. A Drive just four hours hope this magazine veritable army creates every film: out of London and will take your own “I used to painters, carpenters, plasterers, you’re amid the enjoyment of it a through to visual effects mountains and blow things up. step further: by technicians, make-up artists and castles of Wales. Now I build showing you where costumiers, right down to those In Hertfordshire things” to discover the jobs people who don’t work in alone, just outside extraordinary places film always ask about: the best the capital, you have you have glimpsed on boy, or the gaffer. Visitors will historic Knebworth House screen in real life. find that prodigious talent on and Hatfield House, while The Dan Dark is Senior Vice President full display at the Warner Bros. Legend of Tarzan managed to and Managing Director Studio Tour London – The make Ashridge Estate stand of Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden PARTNERS MVP Commercial Partnerships Director Donna Price, Editor & Writer Dominic Wells, Sub Editor Anna Frame, Art Director Tim Benton, Designer Grant Pearce, Production Melanie Needham, Jennifer Bourne, David Weeks, Picture Editor Tamsan Barratt, Sales Director Tourism Rob Way Published by Morris Visitor Publications, Samuel House, 6 St Alban’s St, London SW1Y 4SQ. Tel: 020 7242 5222 Printed by Acorn Web Offset Ltd 3 03_FilmTVGB_Opening Letter 2016.indd 3 03/06/2016 12:06 4_7_FilmTVGB_Opening Feature 2016NEW.indd 4 BRITAIN ON SCREEN ON BRITAIN 4 series haveused The Thames as The Thamesas movies andTV “A rashofspy a backdrop” a backdrop” SCREEN DREAM SCREEN From fairytale palaces to windswept coasts to the soaring thesoaring to coasts windswept to palaces fairytale From towers of London, Britain is the real star of thescreen of star isthereal Britain London, of towers LIVING THE LIVING PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: 03/06/2016 12:12 PIC CREDIT: XXXXXXXXSPOOKS © E1 ENTERTAINMENT; DEVON © ISTOCK 5 BRITAIN ON SCREEN Spooks: The Greater Good hen Tom Hardy two young leads of Star Wars: Abbey. And it’s true, Britain mumbled his way to The Force Awakens are Brits. is blessed with such a wealth an Oscar nomination The same is true of Britain of historic buildings, palaces in a thick backwoods itself. 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Even the dramas such as Downton you’ve come to know and love PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: 5 4_7_FilmTVGB_Opening Feature 2016NEW.indd 5 03/06/2016 12:10 BRITAIN ON SCREEN on screen: pre-booked tickets But audiences also crave of Traitor, and of course for Highclere Castle, where novelty – mystery as well the granddaddy of them Downton Abbey was filmed, as history – and here all, the latest James Bond are sold out for the year. the thrusting, futuristic, film SPECTRE. “Film and TV is becoming constantly changing In fact, the only thing a bigger part of the tourist architecture of modern Hollywood loves more landscape,” says Adrian London shines. than showing Wootton, Chief Executive of There has been off London’s the British Film Commission. a rash of spy “Film and TV beautiful “People want their pictures movies and is becoming buildings taken in front of the sets. The TV series is blowing beauty of Devon’s coastline that use The a bigger part them to and beaches in Broadchurch Thames and of the tourist smithereens, has driven tourists there, its glittering landscape” as in London and we will definitely see an new towers as Has Fallen or increase to Cornwall after a backdrop: in this summer’s Poldark. Westminster Abbey the past year alone, Independence Day: didn’t want The Da Vinci Code Mission Impossible: Resurgence. A bus exploding filmed there, but still had a Rogue Nation; London Spy; on Lambeth Bridge, within 28% increase in visitors the Spooks: The Greater Good; sight of the Houses of following year.” The Night Manager; Our Kind Parliament, made front-page IRELAND SCREEN © NORTHERN CAUSEWAY GIANT’S © LIONSGATE FALLEN HAS LONDON 2015; © HIGHCLERE CASTLE PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: 4 7 4_7_FilmTVGB_Opening Feature 2016NEW.indd 6 03/06/2016 12:14 news earlier this year – but stunning base for filming Steven Spielberg needed to it was all in aid of a movie, Game of Thrones. And there’s depict a land of the giants in Jackie Chan’s forthcoming more where that came from: this summer’s adaptation of The Foreigner. the extraordinary Giant’s Roald Dahl’s The BFG, he Outside London, Britain’s Causeway, consisting of found it in Scotland’s Isle of landscapes provide 40,000 interlocking basalt Skye and the Old Man of Hoy extraordinary variety. From columns which were caused by on the Orkneys. the windswept coasts of Devon a long-ago volcanic eruption In the pages of this and Cornwall that provide (or, according to legend, the magazine, you’ll find the breathtaking backdrop meeting of two giants), has everything from grand to Broadchurch and Poldark, never been seen in Game of historic palaces and the sets to the lochs and bothies of Thrones, but it stood in for a and props from the Harry Scotland in Under the Skin, mythical Transylvania in the Potter films, to quirkier these epic vistas are made 2014 filmDracula Untold. places such as the waterfall for the big screen. In fact, so When Rey discovers Luke at the in Wales you can actually other-worldly are some of the end of Star Wars: The Force walk behind that served as views that they have literally Awakens, on a planet so far off the Batcave. You’ve seen it been used to stand in for alien the beaten track that it has kept all on screen, often without planets and alternate universes. him secret for decades, that even realising it: now it’s time Northern Ireland, most place is really Skellig Michael to get out and experience it GIANT’S CAUSEWAY © NORTHERN IRELAND SCREEN © NORTHERN CAUSEWAY GIANT’S © LIONSGATE FALLEN HAS LONDON 2015; © HIGHCLERE CASTLE famously, provides the in Southern Ireland. And when for yourself. Clockwise from main pic: Giant’s Causeway, as seen in Dracula Untold; Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle and London Has Fallen on the Underground 7 4_7_FilmTVGB_Opening Feature 2016NEW.indd 7 03/06/2016 12:15 BRITAIN’S REAL GAME OF THRONES From London’s Buckingham Palace to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, these are the movie locations fi t for a Queen ROYAL LOCATIONS © VISITBRITAIN; THE ROYALS © E! ENTERTAINMENT/NBCUNIVERSAL; WINDSORS © CHANNEL 4 WINDSORS © E! ENTERTAINMENT/NBCUNIVERSAL; THE ROYALS © VISITBRITAIN; LOCATIONS ROYAL PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: PIC CREDIT: 8 9 8_11_FilmTVGB_Royal Feature 2016NEW.indd 8 03/06/2016 12:19 ROYAL BRITAIN know I have the body of Richard Burton, Robert Shaw, BRITAIN’S TOP 10 a weak and feeble woman, Ray Winstone, Jonathan Rhys ROYAL ATTRACTIONS but I have the heart and Meyers and Damian Lewis are Buckingham Palace, London stomach of a king, and a just a few of those to play the I The office and official residence king of England, too.” Which axe-happy antihero. And the to the Queen is opened to the actress would not give their Royal TV series just keep public from July to September. ring finger for the chance to coming: The Tudors was racy, Tour the lavish State Rooms deliver this speech? Elizabeth I Wolf Hall award-winningly and garden, and see the Old has been played by dozens of cerebral, Liz Hurley’s E! series Masters in the Royal Collection screen greats, from The Royals flat-out of art.