After leading star breaks wrist, TV pilot needs urgent funding to survive. DMorris_Star investigates.
Earlier this year, production was almost wrapped on Henry House – a TV pilot being independently produced in Gobowen.
With the actor fitted with a cast that could not be disguised, director Gareth Thomas and production manager Luke Allen were forced to admit that Purves could not continue filming without there being obvious continuity errors. The entire pilot would have to be re-shot at a later date if it were to be saved."It was the night before one of the biggest weekends of filming in the whole schedule, involving some of the biggest scenes with Órla, who is the lead star," said Gareth.
"Any TV pilot is produced with the hope and expectation of being picked up and green lit," said Gareth."We had put so much money into the set design to make sure things were so consistent. So many people said to us 'why don't you just write it in?'. For a start, we had filmed things out of sequence. So if we had done that we would still have had to re-shoot a large proportion of things.
"Everyone has come together," added Gareth."It's been a real 'blitz spirit' moment that I'll never forget."To allow Henry House to begin filming again from scratch, Gareth, Luke and the team have been crowdfunding with a target of £30,000. So far around £13,000 has been raised.St, Wrexham, in the hope of filling the coffers further.
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