Screen fame for Sherborne

THE historic Dorset town of Sherborne has a starring role in two potential blockbuster films and a new BBC series in the next 12 months.

The Imitation Game – to be released at the beginning of November – is whispered to be a contender for Best Picture and features Sherborne School in location shots for the biopic film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing. 

Turing was a Sherborne pupil, and film crews have been at school filming scenes depicting his boyhood years.

Early spring 2015 will see the release of Thomas Vinterberg adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, starring Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge, and Mathias Schoenaerts. 

The town’s streets were transformed into an 1870s market square located in the town of Casterbridge.

This summer saw Sherborne School and the surrounding area used again for a BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's prizewinning novel.

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Picture Credit: From Top -  'Sherborne Castle and Lake' by John Allan via Wikimedia Commons; 'Dorset Sherborne, Conduit' by Joe D via Wikimedia Commons; 'Courtyard in Sherborne school' by Graham Horn via Wikimedia Commons