the ben wheatley/amy jump thread

More interested in this than Rebecca... Ben Wheatley's directed the new Sleaford Mods video.

https://youtu.be/iKcbSOjIzjQ

Everybody’s gotta eat but still...never expected him to turn into Neil Marshall.

I think that's probably going to happen to lots of directors who were previously able to do their own thing at a decent budget. And maybe Neil Marshall didn't expect to turn into Neil Marshall, no offense meant to him because that has probably always been the lot of most directors.

I was hoping that he'd get a chance to direct more episodes of Strange Angel (and that there would be a third season)

I read somewhere Down Terrace is supposed to be a dark comedy? It's horrifying

it reminded me of the Australian film Animal Kingdom from a year later. I thought that film was more interesting

Down Terrace was pretty good though

snuck this one out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lqkfo7IymU

Where do you watch this one? I couldn't find it on netflix or prime

It says "in theatres 4.23" right there in the trailer. The distributor's website has it still running in independent cinemas in Texas, Colorado, southern California and a few other cities (or a $7 digital rental) - multiplectra here didn't get it. Major cinemas in the UK appear to be reopening next week, so maybe check the programming at your local/s?

Ben Wheatley’s ‘In The Earth’ will be released in UK cinemas on 18 June 2021

Thanks

Thanks, sic.

Saw this last night, and really enjoyed it.

a companion but not a sequel to AFIE, some overt and some implied links between the two.

Like AFIE the visual effects and sound design deserve to be seen on a big screen, at least for the first watch.

Kermode has a good review that hits most of the points I would make.

Cant tell if the pandemic premise will date it, but it added an extra charge to the narrative that might be lost in a few years.

Fun, but inferior to AFIE in virtually every regard. Still, nice to be back in a cinema!

Watched In the Earth over the weekend, and was pretty disappointed... kind of a mess, with too much explaining. Cool idea but a ham-fisted execution.

As per the Meg thread, the trailer is now out for the Ben Wheatley directed sequel, Meg 2: The Trench.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG91B3hHyY4

Just watched High-Rise and really enjoyed it. Need to watch some more, I guess.

finally someone else thinks it's good lol

i'm v glad that after tomb raider got canned, wheatley is still operating in the daft lower-budget action field now

ok maybe not that lower-budget

Lol what an odd career trajectory.

Pro tip= work back from High Rise not forwards

Heh, was thinking of going straight to Kill List.

Do people actively dislike High-Rise or just think it’s worse than what preceded it?

High Rise is unfilmable but Wheatley had a good shot at it is how I see it.

Wheatley was right to cast Hiddleston but even his blank charmlessness couldn't quite match what Ballard was reaching for.

Years ago, I remember seeing a mock poster for Concrete Island with Christian Bale, but I don't think they even began filming

Pretty sure Concrete Island is similarly unfilmable. If it wasn't for Cronenberg's *Crash* I'd say all of Ballard is unfilmable. *Empire of the Sun* kind of doesn't count.

There is even an ebook of High-Rise with Hiddelston as reader, to close the circle.

Hiddleston

this from 2011... I remember looking forward to it

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3Vllqvqw8c/TpeH0zoEXyI/AAAAAAAAABc/oN4iR1XbreY/s1600/Concrete+Island+Teaser+Poster.jpg

if you found the right location you could shoot Concrete Island for cheap!

yeah.. i'm not sure it's 'unfilmable', but it would be like a play with a lot of traffic noise

agreed