This is England - Neu 4 Teiler wird gedreht

[Ted P]

Habe ich heute gelesen, ich freu mich ich kann das uber sky anschauen

Meadows' This Is England spin-off

(UKPA) ? 1 day ago

Shane Meadows is to make his first television drama with a four-part sequel to his film This Is England.

The award-winning movie followed the experiences of a 12-year-old boy, played by Thomas Turgoose, who falls in with a gang of skinheads in the summer of 1983, and the new serial, We Were Faces, picks up their lives four years later.

Channel 4 commissioned the new show as part of a £20 million revamp of the channel's drama output following the decision to axe Big Brother.

Thomas, the young actor who won a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the film, returns to play the main character Shaun as he leaves school and begins to make his way in the world.

The four hour-long episodes will continue the adventures of the skinhead gang in 1986.

Meadows said: "When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further - audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed.

"Not only did I want to take the story of the gang broader and deeper, I also saw in the experiences of the young in 1986 many resonances to now - recession, lack of jobs, sense of the world at a turning point. Whereas the film told part of the story, the TV serial will tell the rest."

As with This Is England, the title of the new drama is taken from a line of the script.

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Bearbeitet 27. August 2009 von A33SC

[Zivi69]

Das hört sich doch top an! Der film war ja schon klasse!