05-06-2021, 06:42 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/the-railway-c...y-12298355
A sequel to The Railway Children has been announced more than 50 years after the original - with Jenny Agutter due to reprise her role as Roberta Waterbury.
Sheridan Smith and Sir Tom Courtenay will join Call The Midwife star Agutter, 68, in the cast, with filming due to start on 10 May.
The sequel, titled The Railway Children Return, will feature a new generation of youngsters who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who is also far from home.
Written by E Nesbit and published in 1906, The Railway Children told the story of a mother and her three children who move to the Yorkshire countryside after their father is falsely imprisoned.
Agutter was a teenager when she shot to fame as the oldest of the Waterbury children in the 1970 film, which also starred Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren.
This may seem bizarre, given my love of trains, but I don't think I've seen The Railway Children in full . I guess it's because I was into trains when I was very young (as a Thomas the Tank Engine fan), and from my teenage years onwards (when I was old enough to have a proper model railway), but the target audience for this movie is somewhere between those ages (in the gap where I didn't care about trains ).
Anyway, if Agutter is coming back, then it sounds like this will be set 50 years after the previous one - and since the original was set in the Edwardian era, I guess the sequel will be set in the 1950s (when steam trains still existed, but were on the way out). So, maybe they're going to try and save their favourite old steam engine from the scrapyard or something like that ?
A sequel to The Railway Children has been announced more than 50 years after the original - with Jenny Agutter due to reprise her role as Roberta Waterbury.
Sheridan Smith and Sir Tom Courtenay will join Call The Midwife star Agutter, 68, in the cast, with filming due to start on 10 May.
The sequel, titled The Railway Children Return, will feature a new generation of youngsters who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who is also far from home.
Written by E Nesbit and published in 1906, The Railway Children told the story of a mother and her three children who move to the Yorkshire countryside after their father is falsely imprisoned.
Agutter was a teenager when she shot to fame as the oldest of the Waterbury children in the 1970 film, which also starred Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren.
This may seem bizarre, given my love of trains, but I don't think I've seen The Railway Children in full . I guess it's because I was into trains when I was very young (as a Thomas the Tank Engine fan), and from my teenage years onwards (when I was old enough to have a proper model railway), but the target audience for this movie is somewhere between those ages (in the gap where I didn't care about trains ).
Anyway, if Agutter is coming back, then it sounds like this will be set 50 years after the previous one - and since the original was set in the Edwardian era, I guess the sequel will be set in the 1950s (when steam trains still existed, but were on the way out). So, maybe they're going to try and save their favourite old steam engine from the scrapyard or something like that ?
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