Simon Pegg film Angels in the Asylum on hold due to cash issues

Filming has been suspended on a movie that was due to be shot partly in Lincolnshire, after the producers ran out of cash.

Angels in the Asylum is due to star Simon Pegg and Minnie Driver and tells the story of women who were locked away for being typhoid carriers.

A crew of 70 had expected to film scenes in Louth in February this year.

The co-producers, Rob Sorrenti and Heather Greenwood, said it had taken 15 years to bring the film into production and it was “devastating when we were forced to halt filming due to our second round of financing failing to materialise”.

In a statement, they said they had been “forced into hiatus”.

“We have been desperately trying to raise finance with the goal of addressing our outstanding obligations to both our cast and crew. We have also put some of our own funds into the project, but sadly, it hasn’t been enough to rectify the situation,” they added.

“We remain determined to find a solution.”

In January this year, the production company wrote to residents in Louth about the “exciting new British film”.

Scenes were due to be filmed in Westgate, Schoolhouse Lane and Gospelgate.

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