‘Think of England,’ WWII Satire About Secret U.K. Mission to Make Morale-Boosting Porn, Sets Ensemble Cast (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAlex Ritman Principal photography has wrapped on “Think of England,” a satirical WWII drama from BAFTA-nominated writer/director Richard Hawkins (“Theory of Flight, “Everything”).
The newly-announced film is set in the run up to the Allied invasion of France, when two British film projects are commission at the very highest level.
For one, Winston 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 Technicolour camera and all of the available film stock.
As the description goes, “Think of England” is the story of the other, following a small and very disparate group of people sent to a remote Orkney island beach and 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,” reads the synopsis.
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