A MULTI-million dollar movie about poets Wordsworth and Coleridge and their time in the Quantocks is to be given its world premiere in Toronto this month.
It means Pandaemonium could follow the success of Land Girls in capturing the imaginations of cinema audiences and enticing them to visit this area.
The new film stars John Hannah as William Wordsworth and Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and features a number of local people who took part as extras.
The two Romantic lyric poets are more commonly associated with the Lake District than with Nether Stowey, where Coleridge lived for a while, and Alfoxton, Wordsworth's base.
But one of Coleridge's most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is believed to have been inspired by a walk across the Quantocks to Watchet, and Wordsworth immortalised Kilve in his Ode to Fathers.
Producer Nick O'Hagan, of Mariner Films, is currently looking for a suitable venue for Pandaemonium's UK release in November.
Meanwhile, West Somerset, Taunton Deane and Sedgemoor tourism chiefs have joined up to produce a 'poets train' leaflet for visitor which will be launched at the same time as the film.