Gisburn Forest will play host to an outdoor screening of epic war film Apocalypse Now on Saturday.

The Oscar-winning film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, will be screened on Picnic Cinema’s huge outdoor screen.

And film-goers are warned to expect some “explosive action and other surprises”.

The event is also a “camp-over”, so participants are invited to bring along their tents and stay the night.

Gisburn Forest is the last stop on Picnic Cinema’s tour across the North of England.

Director Adrian Lochhead said: “It’s just the maddest idea, taking our huge cinema screen, plonking it down in the middle of a forest or an extraordinary gothic castle and screening classic films. When we were first discussing the idea we were nervous as to whether it would work, but at the first set up we knew we had done something extraordinary. The audience response is fantastic.”

Tickets can be purchased via picniccinema.co.uk and cost £25, which includes camping. All profits go to a good cause.