The Great Getaway - Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie

This blog has not seen much action for the last year, but preparations for the film 'The Great Getaway' the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie to Skye should change the long absence of news.

The last three weeks have seen location scouting in the Stranraer area of Scotland for the suitable location for the battle of Culloden scenes of the film. The film is in its final stages of financing with many pledges of support from Scottish actors, who were involved in Scotland's last great film battle, Braveheart, which was completed outside of Scotland in Ireland. In order to prevent the film again going to Ireland, the producer team are busy laying the ground for film fighting workshops in Dumfries and Galloway to lead the way to create trained extras for the battle scene that aims to employ over 500 people for the battle alone.

To get all the information on the Producers, the script and the background, please see our information pack here

Much press has followed the continuing formation of the Film Fighting Workshops, which are being helmed by the Film Veteran Fight Arranger, Seoras Wallace, who has joined the production as Associate Producer. You can view the news from the borders tv website here

There is also a substantial article on a two page spread by the Sunday Herald newspaper here

As the main Producer on the ground, I am delighted to be receiving pledges of support from actor's Tommy Flanagan and Marc Boone, of the highly successful TV series Son of Anarchy, where their show has over 8 million viewers and fans. Tommy Flanagan received his first acting break on Braveheart and hails from Scotland. I am also encouraged by letters of interest from great actors like James Cosmo. I think with the team that is assembling behind this film its promises to be a real success one way or another. It is also a triumph in screen writing by Robbie Moffat.

I can only apologise for the absence of my blog for such a long time, but it seems that there were many obstacles put in the way of  me getting the time and space to sit down and write it.

I think with some good leads, in the pipeline this blog is not likely to remain so silent for so long this year. I leave you with the 1964 film remix of the battle of Culloden and thoughts on how much of a challenge it will be to assemble over 500 trained film fighting extras by July 2015 here

More news to follow in the coming weeks......