Written by new-contact on Oct 18, 2011. Posted in On Location

Anna Karenina to film on location near Oxford with Keira Knightley and Jude Law

British filmmaker Joe Wright will soon be shooting Anna Karenina on location near Oxford with Jude Law and Keira Knightley. The project will film on a heritage railway centre near Didcot Parkway station, doubling for a Russian location. Film crew will be on-location until early December.

The heritage railway centre was opened in 1967 and has been used as a filming location more than 100 times over the last 25 years, often doubling for London’s Paddington Station. Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was the last high-profile studio project to visit.

Every time we get a big budget movie here our reputation as a film location grows in Hollywood and this brings in thousands of pounds a year for us at a relatively quiet time of year for the centre.

Roger Orchard, Didcot Railway Centre

Roger Orchard is the Centre Manager and spoke to the Oxford Mail: “Every time we get a big budget movie here our reputation as a film location grows in Hollywood and this brings in thousands of pounds a year for us at a relatively quiet time of year for the centre. And the film crews bring a financial boost to the town as well because they bring business to B&Bs, cafés and restaurants.”

Last year Wright filmed on location in Morocco, Germany and Finland for assassin thriller Hanna. He’s also no stranger to historical drama, having made his name with Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.