Brighton Rock: an update…

Last month I mentioned that the new adaptation of Greene’s Brighton Rock was in the process of being filmed (dir. Ronald Joffe), and that some scenes would be filmed near my flat. Well, yesterday the production team, cast, and crew came and spent the day transforming the area and filming the picture. They were in the local café for quite some time – which looks like something from the 1950s (the book is set in the 30s but this film is going to “update” the novel to 1964). The local Bangladeshi Welfare Centre became a fish & chips’ shop – with “pork sausages” on the special’s menu! For a few hours I was no longer a resident of Page Street in London, but “Regency Street, Brighton”! Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the event – which I took whilst walking back home from Mass (at the Brompton Oratory – wonderful as ever!)…Which begs the question, I wonder which church they’ll use to film the ecclesiastical scenes?



By the way those scooters were dangerous, and one nearly ran me over!