According to Deadline, Joe Locke has been cast in Studiocanal’s Ian Charleson Film “Elsinore” alongside Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott. Also joining the cast, Billie Piper (Doctor Who), Johnny Flynn (Ripley), Luke Thompson (Bridgerton), BAFTA winner Monica Dolan (Mr Bates Vs The Post Office), Olivier winner Juliet Stevenson (Bend It Like Beckham), BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood), Matthew Beard (The Testament of Ann Lee), David Dawson (The Last Kingdom), Kadiff Kirwan (Slow Horses), Dickie Beau (Bohemian Rhapsody) and BAFTA winner Peter Mullan (Ozark).
The film tells the story of Ian Charleson (Andrew Scott ), the Chariots Of Fire and Gandhi actor who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the performance of his life in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London. A noted stage and screen actor, Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, and died in 1990 at the age of just 40. He requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, to publicise the condition. It was the first celebrity death in the UK openly attributed to the illness.
Filming is underway in the UK.
