the ben wheatley/amy jump thread

Wheatley/Jump def made H-R and FF their own!

He was interviewed about Tomb Raider, said yeah it was a job but one he was stoked to do. The right attitude

They might have been their own films but with more of an eye on commercial potential than they'd ideally want.

Granted, yes. Not that they were particularly successful iirc...

High Rise starring a popular dude from Wallander and the Marvel movies, Free Fire set in America with some Hollywood actors - they definitely feel like more commercial moves, relatively speaking

Budget
£6.1 million (approximately US$8 million)[2]
Box office
$4.1 million[3]

High Rise bombed

Wondering how they're gonna deal with the figure of the Evil Lesbian in 2020.

Bombing doesn't mean they intended to bomb!

True true.

Cronenberg's Crash...this is how its done:

Budget $9 million[2]
Box office $23.2 million[3]

Empire Of The Sun meanwhile

Budget $25 million[1]
Box office $66.7 million[2]

dammit etc

Budget $25 million[1]

for Spielberg I would guess that was pretty low!

hmm. not so. ehh

OK, you’ve waited long enough. Here’s the trailer for REBECCA – directed by Ben Wheatley, and starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Coming to Netflix 21 October. pic.twitter.com/rYRSlzN4Kv

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) September 8, 2020

Lol

well that looks like utter dogshit!

starring Armie Hammer

yikes

waiting for LJ to weigh in

doesn't look hugely promising it's true. music in the trailer was a bit overbearing as well

Might have looked passable but ‘who cares’ if not for the music.

should've kept it cornish and got aphex to do the music, not that pwei tit

I guess I'm in the minority even among Wheatley fans, in that I've liked all of his movies to one degree or another. Granted, Kill List and A Field in England are his/their peak to date, but I thought both Free Fire and High Rise were well constructed and entertaining.

the godawful Free Fire is where i got off the bus and i will never watch it

think the music makes that trailer much worse. jury is out

as i keep saying though idrc about this. roll on tomb raider 2

Granted, Kill List and A Field in England are his/their peak to date

Nah, Sightseers.

Sightseers and Kill List are the only movies I'd revisit from this lot

think the music makes that trailer much worse. jury is out

― imago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Lol just say you are a fan and don't care than post this rubbish

'The Meg 2' finds its director with 'Rebecca' filmmaker Ben Wheatley (exclusive) https://t.co/K6KZl5EFgG pic.twitter.com/yX1bj1ItXn

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 23, 2020

weird career path

Rebecca seems to have been universally panned as a waste of time so this kinda makes sense.

Statham panned The Meg 1 as a waste of time tbh

directors gotta make a living

could be he is a hack

(nb: Statham said the script and original cut of The Meg was an entertaining violent dumb horror action film, but the released PG-13 cut was pointless)

this looks like the sort of thing Wheatley would sign onto and be happy to get paid off and fired from two years before production starts, or be happy to be paid more and get a chance to make a big-budget movie with no expectations if he stays attached

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/all-the-wrong-reasons-to-remake-rebecca?

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!