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Kathryn Williams

This is why you might see Demi Moore filming in Wales

Wales is set to be home to yet another big production - Amblin Television's Brave New World, starring Solo: A Star Wars Story actor, Alden Ehrenreich, Downton Abbey actress Jessica Brown Findlay and also Demi Moore.

Series one of Brave New World, based on the Aldous Huxley novel, will bring directing legend, Steven Spielberg's television company to Dragon Studios in Llanharan, near Llantrisant, as well as other locations across South Wales.

Han Solo actor, Ehrenreich - who is taking on the role of John the Savage in the show - has been spotted enjoying a visit to Cardiff Market this week as principle photography has already begun on the project.

Alden Ehrenreich is filming in Wales now (Publicity Picture)

For Moore, who will play John the Savage's mother, Linda, this is the second time filming in Wales, back in 2005 she filmed mystery-horror Half Light on Anglesey.

Welsh actor Joseph Morgan, star of vampire drama The Originals, will also star as well as Ant-Man and the Wasp baddie, Hannah John-Kamen.

(Getty Images)

A Brave New World has been commissioned by the USA Network and also has NBCUniversal behind it and has received a grant from Wales Screen.

The story of A Brave New World is set in a futuristic society inhabited by genetically modified people, a society which is challenged by one person - Bernard Marx, who is played by Harry Lloyd .

As well as filming here, A Brave New World has seen NBCUniversal implement its Production Assistant Training Program which employs 55 locals being trained in high end TV production work.

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