Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch to film The Lost City of Z in Belfast

RADIO TIMES
Radio Times Staff
10:18 AM, 25 June 2014



Can Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch solve the mystery of explorer Percy Fawcett, who strangely went missing in the Amazon in 1925? We will soon find out…

The Immigrant director James Gray will begin filming The Lost City of Z in not so sunny Belfast early next year. Twilight actor Robert Pattinson will also star in the movie, based on the novel by American writer David Grann.

Belfast isn’t the first location that comes to mind when trying to find a jungle setting, however, the Amazon scenes won’t actually be taking place in Northern Ireland, but the film's London scenes will.

Instead, the sweaty jungle backdrop will be shot in Columbia, and then move onto Northern Ireland later.

"The Lost City of Z is almost set on two different planets – the jungle and Victorian England," explained director Gray to the Belfast Telegraph.

It’s thought that around 100 people never made it out of the Amazon while searching for Fawcett or retracing his footsteps attempting to find the ancient civilisation he was looking for.


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CLIVE OWEN - Shadow Dancer Featurette

Clive Owen, Pippa Middleton attend Shadow Dancer Premiere

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BARNES ATHENA

Clive Owen discusses "Shadow Dancer"

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Clive Owen - Clive Owen's Childhood Fears Over Terrorist Attacks 18 August 2012 14:02 (contact music)

British actor Clive Owen grew up fearing he'd fall victim to a terrorist attack after seeing horrific news reports of conflict in Northern Ireland.

The Sin City star, who grew up in Coventry, England, became terrified he would be embroiled in an attack by the Irish Republican Army (Ira).

Owen, whose new espionage thriller Shadow Dancer is set in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles, once lived in the city when he was starring in a local play.

He tells Britain's Independent newspaper, "I grew up with it being part of our lives and every night hearing some report on the news about the Troubles. (It was) rough... It was a war zone.

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EIFF 2012: Shadow Dancer James Marsh’s IRA thriller is an accomplished, slow-burning drama Source: The List (Issue 698) Date: 21 June 2012 Written by: Tom Dawson (LIST FILMS)

Like the late Alan Clarke’s remarkable television film Elephant, which depicted a series of senseless killings in Northern Ireland during the era of the so-called Troubles, director James Marsh’s Belfast-set drama shows sectarian murders being perpetrated in domestic suburban locations.

Andrea Riseborough excels in the lead role of Colette, a member of an IRA active service unit in 1993, who is arrested mid-mission by the British authorities in London. She is given a stark choice by Clive Owen’s MI5 officer Mac: either she returns to her mother (Brid Brennan) in West Belfast and secretly informs on the movements of her own IRA-combatant brothers (Aidan Gillen and Domhnall Gleeson), or she will be sent to an English jail, and thus separated from her young son.

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Michael Fassbenders amazing career so far

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Liam Neeson stuns locals by working a shift at his sister’s Irish laundry company By Amy Andrews (IRISH CENTRAL)

The 59-year-old ‘Battleship’ star spent more than two hours ironing shirts for customers to help launch his sister Elizabeth’s new venture in Northern Ireland.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Everyone did a double take when they they saw Liam ironing. “No one expected to see a huge star like him doing the laundry.”

Meanwhile, the Catholic-raised actor – whose wife Natasha Richardson died in a skiing accident in 2009 - is considering becoming a Muslim after falling in love with the religion and its rituals during a trip to Istanbul in Turkey. 

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