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Film to be made on Brookside set wins £250k
Feb 8 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

A HORROR film to be made on the form-er set of Liverpool soap Brookside has been given the green light after winning its £250,000 budget as part of a new initiative.

Salvage will be one of three films made in the city and prem-iered later in the year as part of the Capital of Culture celebrations.

It was chosen as part of the Digital Departures initia-tive, launched by Northwest Vision and Media in part-nership with Liver-pool Culture Com-pany, the UK Film Council, and BBC.

Terence Davies will make his docu-mentary, Of Time And The City, an autobiographical trip through Liver-pool, and Starstruck, a film about two girls obsessed by a Premiership foot-baller, is written by Leigh Campbell.

[Kevin]

Haha, this sounds interesting!

[Scarlett.]

lol imagine watching the film "oh look thats where Jimmy Corkhill lived" lol

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From that original idea, Salvage soon developed and it was decided to set the film within a cul-de-sac. “We loved the idea of the characters being contained, and of a mother trying to rescue her daughter,” adds Lawrence, who was intrigued by producer Julie Lau’s idea to set the horror within the former set used by TV soap, Brookside.

“I decided to pay a visit to the Close and started talking to the security guard who was looking after the empty properties. He put me in touch with the owner, and as the houses are all standing empty he was happy for us to use the set as our central location for Salvage,” explains Lawrence.

[ThisIsMarie]

That's really cool, I LOVED brookie!

[Jackie]

I loved Brookside as well shame it had to end.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by jackie46
I loved Brookside as well shame it had to end.

Agreed!

I blame Channel 4 for shifting it around the schedules! (Well we have to blame someone don't we? )