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The Lighthouse star Robert Pattinson said he was surprised to find community leaders in the small Nova Scotia town where he filmed are fighting to keep a lighthouse from the set standing.

Production of the movie — a black-and-white horror flick narrating the tale of two lighthouse keepers in the 1800s driven insane by solitude — included a constructed 20-metre-high wood lighthouse standing on the shore of Cape Forchu in Yarmouth County.

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To the amazement of Pattinson and his co-star Willem Defoe, locals protested against tearing down the structure after filming had finished.

“The people who lived there afterwards were kind of doing a campaign to keep the lighthouse there, because it looked so beautiful, and it looked like it really belonged there,” Pattinson told Deadline.

However, he remains doubtful as to whether their efforts will be successful. “You’re like, ‘you know it’s made out of wood? Like, it’s impossible.’ But no one would know that that was a set,” he added.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this month. It has garnered exceptional reviews from critics who have described the film as “darkly exciting.” It holds a rating of 9.13 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes.

It is scheduled to be released commercially on October 18, 2019.