What are they filming on St Annes Beach?
It's a BBC WW2 mini-series 'World On Fire' starring Sean Bean.
The Dunkirk sequence is being filmed on the beach Tuesday to Thursday this week.
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The beach at St Annes has been chosen for filming part of the production, with cameras due to start rolling on Monday.
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The filming taking place on a Fylde beach this week is for a BBC war drama called World On Fire, it has been confirmed. Hundreds of production staff, actors and vehicles have moved onto the sands north of St Annes to capture beach scenes for the epic story, the transmission date of which is yet to be revealed.
World On Fire is described as 'an adrenalised, emotionally gripping and resonant drama following the first year of the Second World War' told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Filming has already taken place in Prague and other filming locations include Manchester, London, Paris and Berlin. Produced by Mammoth Screen which is part of ITV Studios, World On Fire is written by Peter Bowker, whose previous credits include the BBC drama Blackpool, which starred David Tennant and David Morrissey.Along with Bean, who starred as Sharpe on the ITV show of the same name, World On Fire will also star Academy award-winner Helen Hunt and Olivier Award-winning Lesley Manville together with rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown.Damien Timmer, Mammoth Screen's managing director, said: “We are thrilled by the incredible cast and production team that have come together to tell this extraordinary, deeply characterful and intensely adrenalised story."From the siege of Warsaw, to Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the battle of Britain, here is an epic story told on a human scale, with a truly international cast.”
The North Beach car park in St Annes hasd been closed by Fylde Council until February 19 to allow for the filming.
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Cast and crew gathered on the shores of St Anne's Beach in Lancashire for a reimagining of the Battle Of Dunkirk
•There was no sign of the upcoming BBC drama's leading actors, award-winning duo Sean Bean and Helen Hunt
•Production began on Peter Bowker's new TV series last autumn, with filming taking place in Prague, Paris and Manchester
World On Fire has been billed as an 'adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant' drama detailing the first year of World War II.
Filming was underway for the the upcoming BBC programme on Monday as the cast and crew took over St Anne's Beach in Lancashire in an extravagant recreation of the Battle of Dunkirk.
There was no sign of A-list actors Sean Bean and Helen Hunt on location as filming got underway for Peter Bowker’s historical epic.
Men were spotted dressed in full military uniform as they sat around on the beach, perching on trunks as debris lay at their feet.
Extras were seen performing stunts on the sand, with one man mimicking an explosion as he dived off a trampoline and onto a crash landing pad.
There were also several tanks set up around the beach, as well as a makeshift camp with several tents flanked by vintage WWII vehicles.
Surrounded by the grassy dunes, the beaches Lancashire could be mistaken for the very same shores of Normandy where the Allied forces took on Nazi Germany.
The drama follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States, as they deal with the war's effect on their lives.
Filming for the series kicked off in September last year in Prague, with other locations including Paris and Manchester.
At the time that he was announced as a cast member, Yorkshire-born Sean said in a statement: 'I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama.
'Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.'
The show will see Sean and Helen share screen time with a number stars, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Ansu Kabia and Ewan Mitchell.
Peter Bowker divulged more about the plot in his official statement when the BBC snapped up the rights.
He explained: 'World On Fire tells the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know.
'From Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations with the Nazis and trying to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory worker who will come to take all the opportunities the war can offer to live a different kind of life.
'To Nancy, a female US war correspondent who can’t find peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime. These are the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world.
'Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.'
The evacuation of Dunkirk was the largest military evacuation in history, taking place between May 27 and June 4, 1940.
Known as Operation Dynamo, it saw an estimated 338,000 Allied troops rescued from northern France. 11,000 Britons were killed during Operation Dynamo, and another 40,000 were captured and imprisoned
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