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by james macgregor | August 17th, 2001 | contact: james@netribution.co.uk

Ecosse to Expand

London-based Scots company Ecosse Films have announced plans to make three films each year for the next three years, two of which will be shot in Scotland.

Bonnie Prince Charlie, the story of the 1745 Jacobite campaign and The Waterhorse, a film following two children’s adventures after discovering an egg containing the Loch Ness monster, are the proposed projects. Numerous star names have already been mentioned in connection with the films. Jude Law has been spoken of in connection with the role of the Bonnie Prince, with Kate Beckinsale being pursued to play Flora MacDonald.

A recent acquisition by Ecosse was the services of Ginnie Atkinson, Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as a Consultant Producer for the company, which boasts a £20m turnover.

The company has forged partnerships at Universal, Film Four, Miramax and BBC Film. Together with these partners they plan a film based on the lives of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and another on a historical theme, an epic period drama set in the English Civil War.

On the small screen Ecosse have produced a BBC1 detective series McCready & Daughter starring Lorcan Cranitch from Cracker and Patsy Palmer from East Enders. Collaboration continues with BBC Scotland on several major drama projects including a production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Master of Ballantrae.

Douglas Rae, Managing Director of Ecosse, says the company has succeeded in overcoming fund shortages through forming relationships with the major studios. He is particularly enthusiastic about their relation ship with Film Four, who partner the company in the Henry VIII/Anne Boleyn project.

The company is certainly flavour of the month —if not decade- among the communities around Badenoch and Strathspey, where the TV series Monarch of the Glen is filmed. There the local tourist board has organised a "Monarch of the Glen Trail" for visitors to see the locations where the popular BBC 1 series is filmed.

 


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