Oscar-winning stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman are reportedly heading to Edinburgh this weekend to start shooting the true story about a Scottish prisoner of war.
The Railway Man is based on the life and book of Eric Lomax and will begin its shoot in the Edinburgh area from Monday, according to The Herald, before moving to Thailand in May and Australia in June. Firth said of the film in September: “It is a true story. My character’s story occupies Britain, precisely Berwick.”
Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. There he was tortured and forced to work on the notorious “death railway” in what was then known as Burma. The Scottish scenes for the £12 million film see Lomax (Firth) and his wife Patti (Kidman) facing up to the psychological scars of his captivity and finding some reconciliation with one of the Japanese officers.
He added: “Eric Lomax – the character I play in The Railway Man, is now 91 – and I’ve grown up reading that book.
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