Young Victoria
We get so many costume-drama shoots here that it didn't surprise me when the PR guy for the film Young Victoria told me that parts of it were filmed in Greenwich - apparently standing in for Constitution Hill, which was indisposed...Does anyone remember this? I usually notice - or at least hear about film shoots going on - but this one totally passed me by.
I can't see that Victoria herself had much - or, indeed, any - interest in Greenwich. I'm not even sure if she ever set foot here. Still - she (or a much better-looking version of her...) will be treading our hallowed streets from March 6th, when we can all sit in the Picturehouse squinting at the backgrounds to see if we recognise anything.
Or we can wait for Watchmen. Which I'm pretty sure doesn't have a single frame shot in Greenwich. Or, indeed, in the real world.
Labels: Art
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
10:32
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LOL the Phant speaks the truth. How many times have I been quietly sat watching a film only to point at the screen suddenly and shout "That's the Royal Naval College" and make everyone in the immediate vicinity jump out of their skin!
I think it was around June time last year, they got a load of old coaches and various other props in at the ONRC... I remember seeing a marquee brimming full of victorian scallywags. Then again, that could equally have been one of the many other films they shot there over the summer...
What we really need is a mole in Greenwich Film Unit who can give us a heads-up of what filming's coming up each week, preferably with sneaky hints as to juicy stars we can ogle...
For the record, as I walked through the ORNC last week there was some filming happening by the chapel. The security guard I asked about it said it was "a BBC romantic drama".
The props and scallywags last June were probably for The Wolf Man which is due out in November.
Other recent sightings include Dorian Gray and Sherlock Holmes, both due out later this year.
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I know the filming last year at the ORNC was to do with the Duchess film because I was studying there. They had quite a set in the middle of the King William building which, unless you study or work there you would not have seen it. Lucky for me I took a picture... it was like I went back in time.
Later last year they filmed Little Dorrit in the Queen's House. As for this Victoria film I have no idea.
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