A lad, a landscape and the lure of the Dales that put a friendship into focus
Lad: A Yorkshire Story is the latest film shot in the county to make the big screen and follows on from the likes of Four Lions, Tyrannosaur and The Damned United.
Screen Yorkshire has also just announced that a TV adaption of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is also in pre-production.
The bestselling book by Susanna Clarke, who spent her teenage years in Bradford, was published in 2004 and is about to be made into a seven part series for BBC1.
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Hide AdSet during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return, the 1,000 page epic has been adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander) and while the cast has not yet been announced, filming is expected to start in the late summer.