![]() ![]() And when the Army drops a dangerous job on his lap, the Royal Geographical Society swells aren’t shy about dangling “save your family name” in front of him. ![]() He’d like his regal wife (Sienna Miller) and their growing brood of children to grow up without that cloud (his father’s ill-repute) hanging over them. His competitiveness gains notice among all the right people.īut “He’s been rather unfortunate in his choice of ancestors,” one of the most withering self-admissions ever to come out of the “Downton Abbey” generation.įawcett is keenly aware of this fact himself, even if he isn’t as touchy about his sissy first name. A throwback figure like Fawcett was a Victorian in an Edwardian age, a man with a stain on his family’s honor who sought, by a years-long pursuit involving bravery, suffering and audacity, to reclaim for his descendants their place in Britain’s rigid hierarchy.Ĭharlie Hunnam (“Crimson Peak,” “Pacific Rim”) is Fawcett, an Army officer we meet on a stag hunt in 1903. He disappeared making one last trek into the jungle to find proof of a forgotten civilization in a place the old men of the Royal Geographic Society had permanently labeled “a green desert.”īut one of the truths to emerge from “The Lost City of Z,” David Grann’s book about Fawcett’s search, is that this hunt wasn’t about discovery as much as it was about proving one’s self worth. 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.Major Percy Fawcett was a peripheral figure among that last gasp of stiff-upper-lip British explorers, a tragic figure who set out to find something exciting in one of the last great blank spots on the map - Amazonia. 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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