Ben Wheatley, the British director behind the twisted crime thrillers DOWN TERRACE and KILL LIST, has just commenced shooting on his third feature, SIGHTSEERS. The warped comedy is being produced in part by Nira Park, who helped bring us SHAUN OF THE DEAD and ATTACK THE BLOCK.
Here’s the synopsis for SIGHTSEERS: Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through this sceptred isle in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life.
But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge…
To be distributed by STUDIOCANAL in the UK, the forthcoming comedy is a BIG TALK PICTURES production in association with ROOK FILMS. It is being produced by Nira Park (Big Talk Pictures) and Claire Jones and Andy Starke (Rook Films), and executive produced by Matthew Justice, Danny Perkins, Jenny Borgars and Katherine Butler. Shooting will take place in Derbyshire, Yorkshire and the Lake District over the next four weeks.
Katherine Butler, Film4 Senior Commissioning Executive, says: “We are thrilled to be going into production on the hilariously twisted Sightseers which brings together the prodigiously talented Ben Wheatley with the brilliant Big Talk Pictures and Ben’s dynamic Kill List collaborators at Rook Films. One of Film4’s big priorities is to build long-term relationships with filmmakers, so it’s fantastic to be teaming up once more with Big Talk – with whom we collaborated on Attack the Block – and Rook Films, on a project we’ve loved throughout development.”
Lizzie Francke, Senior Production Executive at BFI Film Fund, says: “Sightseers takes us on a bizarre journey through some of Britain’s most offbeat tourist destinations and in the hands of a director as talented as Ben Wheatley, it promises to be the most heady and hilarious of trips. Forget Psychogeography, this is psychotic geography. We’re delighted to once again be working with Ben and the fantastic production teams at Big Talk and Rook Films and we wish them all the best for the shoot.”
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