A MINING museum in Torfaen could become immortalised on the big screen as part of the life story of a Brynmawr-born 'glam rock' wrestler.

Feature film Adrian — currently in pre-production — will dramatise the life and legacy of professional wrestler Adrian Street, who previously worked in Beynon’s Colliery in Blaina.

After running away from home at 16, the young miner moved to London and quickly established a reputation as tough talking brawler with a flamboyant persona.

As the script enters its final stages, University of Wales graduate Joann Randles is hoping to use the Big Pit National Coal Museum as a location to recreate the wrestler's early years ‘down the pit’.

This week, the 28-year-old film maker toured the site as part of a location scout and believes its 'authentic interiors and exteriors' will transport audiences back in time.

“I wasn’t born at a time when I could go down the mines so to go down and have that feeling of being underground as a teenager (like Adrian) is incredible,” she said.

“When I mentioned I was making a film about Adrian, the staff that worked there knew who he was and that he was a local boy."

“I have been living in this area for a while now and even if I went up to the Big Pit as a tourist, I could spend all day there. In an industrial way it’s really beautiful," she added.

The industrial heritage museum, in Blaenavon, was a working coal mine from 1880 to 1980 and was opened to the public in 1983 with support from the National Museum of Wales.

A Torfaen County Borough Council spokesman said that the Blaenavon World Heritage Site is a “unique environment offering fantastic filming opportunities”.

“Big Pit was used as a location in Dr Who back in 1978 and over the years we have welcomed programmes such as Coal House, The Indian Doctor, S4C’s Cymoedd Roy, the Time Team and the Hairy Bikers,” he said.

Now in his late 70s, Mr Street's achievements range from a record deal and multiple autobiographic book releases, to helping design costumes for feature film The Wrestler (2008).

Although he called time on his career last year after around 15,000 wrestling matches, the former wrestler and his family will be closely involved with the production.

Ms Randles added: “I’m still just taking every day as it comes and I think I’ll realise when I’m on set how much I have achieved.

“You always dream about making your own feature film now I’m doing it. I’m just trying to learn from it and take advice from people who are more experienced than me at the moment”.

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