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Shane Meadows Completes Filming on ‘Chork’

Reuniting the director with Jack Thorne, the film charts two young runaways’ journey along England’s coast ahead of its 2026 U.K. cinema release.

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Overview

  • The wrap of Chork completes Meadows’s first feature film in 17 years.
  • Co-written with Jack Thorne, the story follows two foster children on a runaway road trip across Britain’s east coast under police pursuit.
  • Filming took place from Kent up through Lincolnshire to Scotland before production wrapped this month.
  • Producers include Ben Pugh and Cathy King for 42, Lauren Dark and Amy Jackson for Unified, alongside Meadows’s Big Arty and One Shoe Films, with financing from BBC Film, the BFI, Screen Yorkshire and Hoopsa Films.
  • Altitude will manage international sales ahead of a planned U.K. and Irish theatrical release in 2026.