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Filmmakers Flock to WicklowSunday, June 24 2007The Garden county has attracted some leading lights of the film industry, with the arrival of award-winning French director Agnes Merlet in the Wicklow hills.
Other projects shooting in the county include the second series of the multi-million euro television series 'The Tudors', starring Irish Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Kavanagh and Maria Doyle Kennedy. With a budget of €25m, and predicted injection of €15m into the local economy, the series will shoot for around 20 weeks from Ardmore Studios and key locations around Dublin and Wicklow. As seven weeks of shooting gets under way on the film 'Dorothy Mills', French writer Merlet has joined the cast on the set. Merlet, whose film 'Artemisia' was nominated for a Golden Globe, co-wrote the film with Juliette Sales. Other films shooting in the area include a movie for ITV based on the Charles Dickens novel 'The Old Curiosity Shop' starring veteran actor Sir Derek Jacobi. 'Sex and the City' star Kim Cattrall and 'Harry Potter' actor Daniel Radcliffe will also head for Ireland next month to begin shooting 'My Boy Jack', which is about Rudyard Kipling's search for his son who went missing during World War One. 'Dorothy Mills' centres around a disturbed young woman who is suspected of assaulting an infant in a remote rural village. Octagon Films is working on the Irish-French co-production.
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