Britain’s Sky Arts announced this week a fourth season of its popular Urban Myths series for 2020 and one of the four short films will center on Orson Welles.
Urban Myths: Orson Welles in Norwich will star BAFTA-winner Robbie Coltrane, OBE as Welles.
According to a summary provided by Sky: Welles in 1972 was working on F for Fake, but he had run out of funds and is “skint,” according to his manager (Craig Ferguson). However, opportunity comes from the most unlikely of places… in East Anglia. Welles accepts work at a television station in Norfolk county where he encounters an ambitious local news woman played by Saoirse Monica Jackson, and then swiftly goes missing.
(Anglia Television in Norwich produced Orson Welles Great Mysteries and Survival, which Welles narrated.)
Urban Myths: Orson Welles in Norwich was written by Matthew Broughton and produced by Absinthe Film Entertainment.
Richard Curson-Smith will direct with Jeremy Campbell producing. Coltrane and Lucy Lumsden are serving as executive producers.
The three other Urban Myths short films set for release this year include Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand, Les Dawson’s Parisienne Adventure and Hendrix and Handel.
Urban Myths kicked off its run in January 2017 with Bob Dylan: Knockin’ on Dave’s Door, which found the legendary singer-songwriter turning up on a stranger’s doorstep.
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