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Date posted: 18.10.2010
Film London and the BFI London Film Festival have partnered with Transport for London to produce the first ever Underground Film Map.
Launched to coincide with the 54th BFI London Film Festival, the Underground Film Map pays homage to the London Underground map, one of the most celebrated designs of the 20th Century.
The Film Map features films, TV shows, the names of film stars and film-makers in the place of the stations where either the production shot or the star was born. As a result, Waterloo Station becomes Bourne Ultimatum, honouring the film's thrilling chase sequence set and shot at the famous station, and King's Cross St. Pancras is renamed after the most famous child wizard of all time, Harry Potter, as the setting of the fictional 9¾ train platform. Similarly, Channel 4's award-winning sitcom The Green Wing, which shot in Northwick Park Hospital, occupies the place of Kenton station on the Bakerloo Line.
The Map also celebrates Barking as the place where actress Dame Maggie Smith was born and Rayners Lane in Harrow marks the birthplace of Slumdog Millionaire's star Dev Patel. Other details featured in the Map include key film studios in the capital, as well as places with a link to celebrated directors, producers and cinematographers.
The Film Map celebrates decades of film-making in London, the third busiest film production centre in the world. Around 35 crews can be found filming in London every day, and names such as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg have chosen the city to shoot in recent times.
The new Underground Film Map follows shortly after the launch of Film London's Love from London Online Movie Map, a web-based tool to discover and explore over 200 spots of cinematic interest in London, from film locations to cinemas.
The Underground Film map will be on sale from BFI Southbank, London Transport Museum Shop in Covent Garden and online from TfL at www.tfl.gov.uk/shop.
Read the full press release.
Launched to coincide with the 54th BFI London Film Festival, the Underground Film Map pays homage to the London Underground map, one of the most celebrated designs of the 20th Century.
The Film Map features films, TV shows, the names of film stars and film-makers in the place of the stations where either the production shot or the star was born. As a result, Waterloo Station becomes Bourne Ultimatum, honouring the film's thrilling chase sequence set and shot at the famous station, and King's Cross St. Pancras is renamed after the most famous child wizard of all time, Harry Potter, as the setting of the fictional 9¾ train platform. Similarly, Channel 4's award-winning sitcom The Green Wing, which shot in Northwick Park Hospital, occupies the place of Kenton station on the Bakerloo Line.
The Map also celebrates Barking as the place where actress Dame Maggie Smith was born and Rayners Lane in Harrow marks the birthplace of Slumdog Millionaire's star Dev Patel. Other details featured in the Map include key film studios in the capital, as well as places with a link to celebrated directors, producers and cinematographers.
The Film Map celebrates decades of film-making in London, the third busiest film production centre in the world. Around 35 crews can be found filming in London every day, and names such as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg have chosen the city to shoot in recent times.
The new Underground Film Map follows shortly after the launch of Film London's Love from London Online Movie Map, a web-based tool to discover and explore over 200 spots of cinematic interest in London, from film locations to cinemas.
The Underground Film map will be on sale from BFI Southbank, London Transport Museum Shop in Covent Garden and online from TfL at www.tfl.gov.uk/shop.
Read the full press release.
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