Ryan Andrews’ ELFIE HOPKINS is currently in production in the West Wales, and the first three stills have surfaced, courtesy of STYD. The movie stars Jamie Winstone (below, DONKEY PUNCH), Ray Winstone (BEOWULF), Rupert Evans, Kate Magowan, Aneurin Barnard, Steven Mackintosh and Kimberley Nixon. Here is the synopsis:
Elfie Hopkins and The Gammons tells the story of a misfit stoner and pulp fiction aficionado Elfie Hopkins. She dreams of escaping the dreary rural village and hitting the big smoke for some action. But when a mysterious family moves in across the street Elfie soon realizes that the biggest and certainly bloodiest case of her life has just landed on her door step.
Jaime Winstone describes the film as “Twin Peaks meets Miss Marple, with a Tim Burton-esque look and X-Files tone.” Director Ryan Andrews, meanwhile, says that it is “a weird mash-up of two worlds with a heightened reality comic-strip feel informed by everything between author Roald Dahl and The Lost Boys to Brit photographer Tim Walker and The Shining.”
Sounds like it could be a cool one. The film is a co-production between Black and Blue Films and Size 9 Productions. It’s expected to hit theaters in the U.K. later this year. Word is out on whether or not the completed film will go by the proposed full title, ELFIE HOPKINS AND THE GAMMONS.