Sir Anthony Seldon executive produces film adaptation of Journey’s End

Sir Anthony Seldon is an Executive Producer of the Lionsgate adaptation of R.C. Sheriff’s Journey’s End. You can watch this in cinemas from this evening.

Here’s a snippet:

March, 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches in northern France led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin).

A German offensive is imminent, and the officers (Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham Tom Sturridge) and their cook (Toby Jones) distract themselves in their dugout with talk of food and their past lives. Stanhope, meanwhile, soaks his fear in whisky, unable to deal with his dread of the inevitable.

A young new officer, Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), has just arrived, fresh out of training and abuzz with the excitement of his first real posting – not least because he is to serve under Stanhope, his former school house monitor and the object of his sister’s affections.

Each man is trapped, the days ticking by, the tension rising and the attack drawing ever closer…

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Cast: Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Graham and Paul Bettany
Director: Saul Dibb
Writer: Simon Reade
Based on the play by R.C. Sherriff and the novel by R.C. Sherriff & Vernon Bartlett

Read more on the Lionsgate website