insideKENT Magazine Issue 24 - March 2014 | Page 112

COVERSTORY
he is forced to make decisions that will transform his life forever. It is a
dramatic tale of broken dreams, unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and
redemption.
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham was used to double as a factory, a
court room and various streets.

Pirates of the Caribbean:
On Stranger Tides (2011)
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written by: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
(screenplay, characters and screen story);
Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
(characters) and Tim Powers (novel
suggestion)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
and Ian McShane
Kent Locations Used: Knole House,
Sevenoaks

Call the Midwife (2012 – 2013)
Starring: Jessica Raine, Pam Ferris, Miranda
Hart, Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Helen
George, Jenny Agutter and Ben Caplan
Kent locations used: The Historic Dockyard,
Chatham

In the fourth instalment of the blockbuster
Pirates of the Caribbean series, Johnny
Depp returns as the lovable rogue,
Captain Jack Sparrow. On a quest to find the fabled Fountain of Youth, he
is joined by veteran pirates Captain Barbossa and long time comrade,
Joshamee Gibbs.
In this action-packed tale, Jack is lured on board the ship of the
notorious Blackbeard by the mysterious Penelope Cruz, a long lost love
from his distant past. Racing against the Spanish and English Naval fleets,
the film is a whirlwind story of adventure, revenge and dangerous mermaids.
Knole Park in Sevenoaks was the Kent location used in the film. The
large inner courtyard was filled with gallows intended for Gibbs.

BBC drama Call The Midwife is set in East
London during the 1950s, and is based on
the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. It follows a
newly qualified midwife who works alongside
midwives and nuns at a nursing convent,
whereby they face the many medical problems
and struggles of a very deprived area.
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham was used to film many of the London
street scenes for both the first and second series (aired early in 2014), as
well as the Christmas special.

World War Z (2013)
Les Misérables (2013)

Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan,
Drew Goddard, Max Brooks (novel) and
Damon Lindelof (screenplay)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos,
Jerins, Matthew Fox and
Dale
Kent locations used:
Discovery Park, Sandwich

Directed by: Tom Hooper
Written by: Victor Hugo (novel);
Nicholson and Herbert Kretzmer
(screenplay); Alain Boublil and
Michel Scönberg
(screenplay and stage musical)
Starring: Anne Hathaway,
Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Sacha Baron Cohen and
Amanda Seyfried
Kent locations used:
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham

World War Z is an apocalyptic action, scifi film starring Brad Pitt as United Nations
researcher Gerry Lane. In the film, Lane
is forced to leave his family to travel across
the world in a race against time to try and
stop the zombie pandemic that is threatening to decimate humanity itself.
In September and October 2012, the World War Z production team
visited the offices and laboratories at Discovery Park in Sandwich to shoot
scenes where Gerry Lane tries to find a cure for the zombie pandemic.

The film, Les Misérables, is based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel and Cameron
Mackintosh’s popular musical.
Set in 19th-century France, it tells the story of Jean Valjean, an exprisoner who has broken his parole. Hunted by ruthless policeman Javert,

© Kent Film Office

Top Gear - Jaguar Special (2011)

Kent locations used: Chilham
To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Jaguar Etype, Jeremy Clarkson and his team of E-types
visited the village of Chilham in Kent. In true
Clarkson style, the celebrations were anything
but low key, and involved live music, classic fighter
planes and a group of Royal Marines.
The Top Gear team made the most of Kent
Film Office’s legal powers to close roads for
filming and closed Chilham's square to film the
episode.

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