A film company has returned to Huddersfield to shoot another thriller.
Julian and Lionel Hicks worked with North Light Studios in 2012 on their feature film Scintilla and are now back in town for a second time.
They have teamed up with York-based GSP Studios to produce award winning director, Steve Stone’s second feature Extremis, which is shooting partly on location in Huddersfield.
Stone is the writer/director of Extremis and his previous film Entity won Best Low Budget Film at the London Independent Film Festival 2013.
The new psychological thriller, Extremis, centres on a business executive who returns home to his family for the weekend. Within hours of his return a cataclysmic ‘event’ takes place and the world they inhabit becomes deserted and toxic.
Slowly he begins to question the nature of this ‘event’; is it really out there or has it come from within? As the threat grows he races across the ravaged landscape to save his daughter not from the end of the world ... but from the end of their world.
Extremis stars David O’Hara (Braveheart, The Departed, Luther) and Isabelle Allen (Les Miserables).
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Filming has been taking place in several locations in Huddersfield including the former Kirklees College campus in new North Road and will continue across Yorkshire over the next three weeks.
Julian Hicks said: “I am delighted to back filming in Huddersfield. The town has provided us with the perfect location. Yorkshire is becoming our hub for filmmaking in the UK”.
David O’Hara got his big break as Stephen the rampaging Irishman who joins forces with William Wallce (Mel Gibson) in Braveheart (1995). The following year saw him co-starring opposite Helen Mirren as a slightly independent policeman in Granada Television’s Prime Suspect V: Errors in Judgement. Since then O’Hara has appeared in a number of films including Cowboys & Aliens, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Departed, Hotel Rwanda and Wanted.
Ben Sweet, of Armitage Bridge-based North Light Studios, said it was again a coup for the town.
“It is another succes story and we are now getting a great reputation within the film industry for the infrastructrue we can offer.
“Huddersfield is making a proper name for itself in TV and film and we are hoping for another great year”.
