First Look At Richard Hakwin’s Satire Think Of England

Principal photography has wrapped on Think Of England, a unique satirical drama from Bafta-nominated writer/director Richard Hawkins (Theory of Flight, Everything).

The film stars Jack Bandeira (Lockwood & Co), Natalie Quarry (Call The Midwife), John McCrea (Cruella), Ronni Ancona (Big Impression), Ben Bela Böhm (Angels & Demons), Ollie Maddigan (The Olive Boy) and Oscar Hoppe (Munich: The Edge of War).

Think Of England is set in the run-up to the Allied invasion of France, two British film projects are commissioned at the very highest level. On one, Churchill himself insists that Laurence Olivier immediately embark upon a lavish production of Shakespeare’s Henry V, securing for him a state-of-the-art, 3-strip Tehnicolour camera and all of the available film stock…

This is the story of the other…Porn film!

Here’s the Synopsis:
It’s the summer of 1943. A small and very disparate group of people arrive on a remote Orkney island beach tasked with a top secret mission – the making of pornographic films for the boys at the front. For who knows how long this war still has to run, and fighting morale – as we learned only too well from the last one – is everything.

So then, a very war-damaged former movie star; a celebrated German film-director; a munitions-machinist-come-aspiring-actress; an Etonian captain from the Ministry of Information; an aging, alcoholic hair-and-makeup artist; a young lad, as innocent as can be and right on the very threshold of war’s bloodbath. Oh, and a half-starved and very ragged Luftwaffe pilot, watching on from afar …

“Very excited to have completed principle photography on Think Of England” said director Richard Hawkinss. “7 extraordinary narratives, 4 cinematic grammars, 3 different media, 2 aspect ratios, 1 entire film! All in the can!”.

The film is also produced by father-daughter duo, Nick O’Hagan (The Good Liar, The Serpent Queen) and Poppy O’Hagan (Worm, Good Boy) of Giant Films.

Think Of England doesn’t yet have a distributor or potental release date, expect 2025.

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