This scene from Gladiator was filmed just a few short miles from where I used to live in Hampshire.

I visited Farnham often.

The soldier guys all around me were totes pissed off that THEY hadn’t been asked to be extras :o(

And the locals were none to pleased to have UnHolyWood in their town!!!

 

The savage opening battle, set in ‘Germania’, was staged at The Bourne near Farnham, Surrey. The story that filming caused ructions among environmentalists after swathes of forest were cleared seems to be a media concoction – this was an area scheduled for clearing by the Forestry Commission. The clearing, south of Dene Lane, off Tilford Road, southeast of Farnham, was revisited in 2009 by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe for the castle and village sets in Robin Hood. More recently, the forest became the muddy battlefield of WWI for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse and saw Marvel’s hammer-wielding superhero battling inhuman hordes in Thor: The Dark World. Diana Prince and her team ride through the forest to find the ‘German High Command’ in Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman.

 

What some creatures will do to earn a buck or several zillions!!