We also met potential financiers, cast and crew,” Blaney explains to KFTV. “We originally intended to film Escape from Pretoria in South Africa, and went out in 2017 to look at locations, including paying a visit to the (still functioning) Pretoria prison itself. Once they’d secured the rights, Annan took on the directing reins and co-wrote the adapted script with L.H. Mark sent Annan, an unknown British director, Jenkin’s book back in 2012 (even though they didn’t have the rights at the time) and he loved it. That is until 2003 when Mark Blaney of UK outfit Footprint Films met with Tim over dinner and knew after talking to him that they had to make the film.īlaney and his partner at Footprint Films, Jackie Sheppard, joined forces with Harry Potter producer David Barron at Beagle Pug Films and Gary Hamilton and Michelle Krumm at Arclight Films, based in Australia and the US, who are the movie’s sales agent. Other producers had shown interest in adapting Jenkin’s book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria prison, which was published in the late 1980s, but no project came to anything. The film tells the true-life story of political prisoners Tim Jenkin (Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), two white South Africans who, along with other prisoners, hatched a plot to break out of Pretoria Central Prison in 1979 using handcrafted wooden keys, after being convicted of campaigning with the African National Congress (ANC). British director Francis Annan’s forthcoming film, Escape from Pretoria, set in the notorious South African prison during Apartheid, filmed entirely in the South Australian city of Adelaide.
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