Something of a passion project for the director, who grew up in Salford, Greater Manchester, Peterloo is backed by Amazon, Film4 and the BFI.
The first trailer for Peterloo, Mike Leigh’s dramatisation of the bloody 1819 “Peterloo massacre” in Manchester that resulted in 15 deaths, has been released on the internet.
Peterloo is Leigh’s most ambitious and largest budget film to date, following on from another period film, his biopic of painter William Turner.