See the first look image for Sky Cinema’s Save The Cinema

24 September 2021

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Samantha Morton in Save The Cinema / Picture Credit: Sky

Next year (2022), Sky Cinema will be releasing new film, Save The Cinema onto their popular platform. The film centres on a supposedly insignificant town in Wales, but the quiet place is anything but ordinary.

Save The Cinema is inspired by the real-life events kindled by Liz Evans, who is played by Samantha Morton (Minority Report, John Carter) in this inspiring journey about perseverance and gall.

Evans shows how the valour of one tiny Welsh, inspired by the wonders of cinema, was able to bring the magic and spark of Hollywood to their front door.

Carmarthen in Wales isn’t exactly the first place anyone would think of when discussing the excitement and thrill of Tinseltown, and the incredible stories that come from it.

However, this took a turn in 1993, when the town council made the unpopular announcement that The Lyric Theatre, the town’s adored yet financially challenged cinema, would be destroyed in favour of a shopping centre.

It’s up to Evans, a hairdresser and backbone to her local community, to stand up tall for the beloved, crumbling cinema and stop the bulldozers from tearing down a piece of Carmarthen.

As she and her friends barricade themselves within the cinema’s walls, Evans reaches out to a postman-turned-town-councillor named Richard (Tom Felton) for aid; this sparks the beginning of a grand and, hopefully, successful plan.

To reinvigorate the cinema and put a stop to the council’s plans to strip the heart of Carmarthen away, Evans persuades Richard to write to Hollywood and ask for an olive branch.

One pivotal and late-night call later, and one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers throws The Lyric a colossal lifeline, and a premiere. Will this be enough to save the town’s beloved cinema?

As well as Morton and Felton, the cast includes Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), Adeel Akhtar (Enola Holmes), Erin Richards (Gotham), Owain Yeoman (Emergence), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Colm Meaney (Gangs Of London), Rhod Gilbert (Have I Got News For You) and Keith Allen (Kingsman: The Golden Circle).

Save The Cinema will be released onto Sky Cinema on January 14th, 2022.

Written by Melissa, who you can follow on Twitter @melissajournal