Private Peaceful coming to a cinema near you

 At the moment Michael Morpurgo's other novel 'War Horse' is going to be coming to a cinema near you, but a couple of days ago Empire Magazine's website brought to my attention the next novel that's story is based during World War I 'Private Peaceful' will have it's fifteen minutes of fame up on the big screen.

Pat O'Connor will be directing and Simon Reade will be writing the script for this, and as the story is set between Devon and the Western Front of WWI the film will be shot at locations around East Anglia which will apparently be instead of any West Country locations...this to me seems a cop out as I know that the story of 'Private Peaceful' is bleak and its probably going to be shot there because of it being up north and not too far away from London, or that it's probably a lot cheaper to film in East Anglia or it's just easier for all involved including the cameramen and all the like to get to all the different locations, but I have to say it would have been nice if there were going to be at least some locations chosen in the West Country or even Dorset.

The filming for this book to film adaption will begin at the end of this month. Samuel Bottomly will play the lead character of this film Tommo Peaceful as a child, George McKay will play him as a teenager. Hero Fiennes Tiffin will play Charlie Tommo's older brother when he was younger and Jack O'Connell will play him when he is a teenager. In case your like me and your not familiar with these names George McKay was when he was younger one of the lost boys in the latest adaption of Peter Pan, and Samuel Bottomly was in Tyrannosaur.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin played the young Tom Riddle in the -I think it was the third Harry Potter but don't quote me on this as there is soooo many it's hard to remember which one is which as well as the name of them-, and Jack O'Connell who any Skins fans will recognise him as Cook.


So watch this space...