“There’s no point in having dreams unless they are wild,” says the producer Leo Pearlman when he was asked to contemplate the dizzying scale of his ambition to create a new Hollywood on the banks of the Wear in Sunderland.
“The idea of building one of Europe’s biggest film and television studios is, of course, wild, and I almost have to play down the scale of the ambition just so people don’t get scared off. But the truth is that 20 sound stages is just the start.”
