Hollywood comes to Adelaide – Daniel Radcliffe has been spotted filming for 'Escape From Pretoria' at Mitcham train station. #7News /QGDBcYoHaD- 7 News Sydney March 13, 2019 iYAqwJGqmH- ABC Adelaide March 12, 2019ĭaniel Radcliffe film 'Escape From Pretoria' transforms Adelaide CBD street into 1970s South Africa. Pirie St #adelaide is converted to 1978 Cape Town. It’s very sad, because it would have been great to have South African actors and genuine South African accents in the film.” Watch: Pirie Street transformed into 1970s Cape Town The slightly political prison thriller Escape From Pretoria works best when onscreen action is focused on Daniel Radcliffe, playing real-life South African political prisoner Tim Jenkin, as he leads a crack team of white prisoners in breaking out of Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. It’s more expensive, but at least things happen there. In the end, the producers got fed up and decided to go to Australia. “They were going to, but there were endless problems with the department of arts and culture.
