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“This ensures that when a film like The Dig comes to Suffolk, we know exactly who they need to talk to.” Meanwhile Norfolk Screen, newly-founded by managing director Claire Chapman and head of development Craig Higgins, is championing the county to local and incoming production companies. "We we all know, incoming screen production reaps huge benefits for the local economy, so it's great for Suffolk and Norfolk that The Dig chose to shoot in the East of England," said Ms Higgins. “It is no secret that Norfolk has hosted a number of notable film and TV productions – ranging from class...

CST_ Netflix presents a film directed by Simon Stone and written by Moira Buffini, based on the novel by John Preston. Rated PG-13 (for brief sensuality and partial nudity). Running time: 112 minutes. Opens Friday at Landmark Century Centre and on Netflix. Based on a 2007 novel by John Preston that was inspired by the incredible true story of one of the most significant British archaeological finds ever, “The Dig” maintains a dignified and restrained approach, even when the material gets a little salacious in the form of not one but two “forbidden” romances. Melodramatic relat...

Johnny Flynn and Lily James in The Dig. Photo by Larry Horricks/Netflix When archaeologists appear in movies, it’s almost always as part of some treasure-hunting adventure. From Indiana Jones to Lara Croft to The Mummy, the story tends to forgo the actual process of finding ancient relics and focus instead on the danger that characters must go through in order to get them. A very different type of archaeologist is at the center of The Dig. In 1939, Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) is hired by Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) to excavate mounds on her English country estate, Sutton Hoo. Both s...

For Ralph Fiennes Basil Brown was an amazing man. The Suffolk-born actor talks about the self taught archaeologist who found the Sutton Hoo ship burial

The story of one of the most significant archaeological finds has been immortalised in this handsome Netflix movie starring Carey Mulligan.