![]() You will recognize Carey Mulligan from The Great Gatsby, Promising Young Woman, and An Education. You might recognize Ralph Fiennes from his performance as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film franchise and Lily James is known for projects like Downton Abbey, Cinderella, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The supporting cast includes Johnny Flynn as Rory Lomax, Archie Barnes as Robert Pretty, and Monica Dolan as May Brown. The mast cast includes Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty, Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown, Lily James as Peggy Piggott, Ben Chaplin as Stuart Piggott, and Ken Stott as Charles Phillips. Without further ado, below you will find the details we could dig up (see what I did there?) about the film. The film tells the story of a startling archeological discovery made in England on the cusp of the Second World War. ![]() However, beyond the basics, The Dig takes creative license with the facts.Based on the novel of the same name by John Preston, The Dig premiered on Netflix just a few days ago on January 29, 2021. Although the courts decided the treasure belonged to Edith Pretty, she gifted the discovery to the British Museum before dying three years later, and Basil Brown remained unacknowledged in the Sutton Hoo discovery until recently. The ultimate fates of the characters in The Dig’s bittersweet ending are also largely unaltered. The real-life find at Sutton Hoo was just as staggering as it appears in The Dig and attracted just as much attention from museums, archaeologists, and journalists. Related: One Night In Miami True Story: How Much is Real & What The Movie Made Up As word of the find spread, Charles Phillips (Ken Stott) and his team of archaeologists took over the excavation under the urgency of the looming threat of World War II. ![]() He unearthed a find no one expected, an intact 6th-century ship burial that redefined historical knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons. In 1939, Edith Pretty (played in the movie by Carey Mulligan) hired self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her land. The movie sticks to the truth with the foundations of the story, and most of the characters in The Dig movie are based on real people involved in the excavation. ![]()
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