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Simon Stone’s The Dig, now on Netflix, starring Carrey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, began its source material excavation in 2006. Producer Ellie Wood had then finished John Preston’s historical novel, The Dig, a semi-fictional work (which, at the time, had yet to be released) expanding on the real 1939 archeological excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England. She immediately wanted to turn the story into a film and soon sent the story to screenwriters. What Wood saw was a trove of dramatic character relationships. She explained this insight to the BBC. “As the ship is revealed, so are ...

'The Dig' on Netlfix: The Big Changes Made to the True Story of Sutton Hoo On 2/1/21 at 7:41 AM EST The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) discover an ancient burial mound full of amazing Anglo-Saxon artifacts. Real archaeology (as opposed to the whip-cracking, globe-trotting type dreamed up by the Indiana Jones movies) is a slow and laborious process, and as such seems an unlikely topic for a starry movie. However, Netflix has decide...

READ MORE Is The Dig a true story? According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston. While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds. In July 1937, Edith wrote to local historians who eventually put her in touch with Ipswich Museum, which in...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story Behind Netflix's 'The Dig' How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesn't tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but The Dig has turned out to be exactly that. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn feature in the film based on John Preston's 2007 novel, also called T...

In 1938, excavator Basil Brown broke ground at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, investigating a series of mounds on the property of landowner Edith Pretty. There, he makes an overwhelming discovery: the mounds mark the burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king.  Director Simon Stone brings the narrative to life in “The Dig,” a recent Netflix film based on both the historical incident and John Preston’s novel of the same name. For a production about a significant discovery, it handles themes of exploration and the importance of history lightly, leaving everything at face v...