\n Set in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, The Choral is a film about a community that recruits boys to form a choir during World War One.\n<\/p>\n
\n The trailer features several\u00a0locations in the World Heritage Site of Saltaire,\u00a0including Salts Mill, Victoria Hall, the Leeds Liverpool Canal, as well as the distinctive\u00a0streets of the village.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A local train station also gets airtime\u00a0in the trailer,\u00a0which lasts two minutes and 38 seconds.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Who stars in The Choral?<\/p>\n
\n Harry Potter star Ralph Fiennes plays the lead\u00a0character, Dr\u00a0Henry Guthrie.\n<\/p>\n
\n The movie also stars Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, and Simon Russell Beale.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0The movie is directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Choral marks their fourth writer-director collaboration following acclaimed films The Madness of King George, The History Boys, and The Lady in The Van.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fiennes walks the streets of Saltaire last year (Image: SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
What is The Choral about?<\/p>\n
\n The bio for the film reads: “1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, has lost most of its men to the army.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The Choral\u2019s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr\u00a0Henry Guthrie \u2013 driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany.\n<\/p>\n
\n “As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.”\n<\/p>\n
\n An image of the filming taking place (Image: SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
Saltaire the scene for new movie<\/p>\n
\n Photos taken in June 2024 showed Fiennes walking around the film set in a brown suit.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another image displayed an old-fashioned horse and carriage on the set, and a different photo showed\u00a0a group of extras lined up outside a post office.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saltaire was transformed for the filming, and images showed how shops were\u00a0given vintage facades.\n<\/p>\n
\n The village has also been used as a filming location for many other productions, including Netflix drama The English Game and Agatha Christie’s\u00a0The ABC Murders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, The Choral is a film about a community that recruits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-46499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}