Exclusive: The team behind Tom Hardy drama Locke talk about how they quickly put the project together and shot in only eight nights.
Eight nights, one star, one car. That’s the formula behind Locke, Steven Knight’s UK drama that has its world premiere in Venice tonight [Sept 2].
Tom Hardy stars as Ivan Locke, an ordinary guy with a loving family and burgeoning career, whose life changes during the course of 85 minutes – the time of one single car journey.
“He’s the most ordinary guy in the world, a construction director working on a huge skyscraper,” says Shoebox Films director Paul Webster. “The film takes place on the eve of the biggest moment of his career. He’s got a home a wife, two kids, a perfect job. By the end of the movie he has none of these things.”
The low-budget drama was shot in real time in an under-the-radar production that reunited Knight with his...
Eight nights, one star, one car. That’s the formula behind Locke, Steven Knight’s UK drama that has its world premiere in Venice tonight [Sept 2].
Tom Hardy stars as Ivan Locke, an ordinary guy with a loving family and burgeoning career, whose life changes during the course of 85 minutes – the time of one single car journey.
“He’s the most ordinary guy in the world, a construction director working on a huge skyscraper,” says Shoebox Films director Paul Webster. “The film takes place on the eve of the biggest moment of his career. He’s got a home a wife, two kids, a perfect job. By the end of the movie he has none of these things.”
The low-budget drama was shot in real time in an under-the-radar production that reunited Knight with his...
- 9/2/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Joe Wright is being attached to direct, and his Shoebox Films partner Paul Webster is coming aboard to produce with Hanks and Goetzman. The film will be a co-production between Playtone and Shoebox.
- 3/4/2013
- by deadline.com
- Huffington Post
Everyone wants a piece of Mr. Neil Gaiman. In what sounds like a good match, director Joe Wright is in talks to direct the adaptation of Gaiman’s novel, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.
The book, due out in June, is about magic, monsters, horror, and ancient powers. You know, a typical Gaiman book. Joe Wright is the king of dreamy, ethereal, costume-centric films and The Ocean At The End Of The Lane’s plot, via the jacket copy, sounds like it will perfectly complement Wright’s style:
" ... it’s about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family’s car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose,...
The book, due out in June, is about magic, monsters, horror, and ancient powers. You know, a typical Gaiman book. Joe Wright is the king of dreamy, ethereal, costume-centric films and The Ocean At The End Of The Lane’s plot, via the jacket copy, sounds like it will perfectly complement Wright’s style:
" ... it’s about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family’s car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Sara Castillo
- FEARnet
Neil Gaiman's The Ocean At The End Of The Lane doesn't even hit store shelves until June 18 but that hasn't stopped Tom Hanks' Playtone and Focus Features from snapping up the rights pre-emptively and attaching Anna Karenina and Hanna director Joe Wright to direct.Here's how Deadline describes the story:The Ocean At The End of the Lane will be published in June by William Morrow. According to jacket copy, it's about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family's car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are...
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- 3/1/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Joe Wright directing film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s upcoming adult novel, skeptical question mark?
Deadline is reporting that Focus Features and Tom Hanks’ production company, Playtone, “are closing a deal” for the adaptation rights to Neil Gaiman’s upcoming novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, set for publication in June 2013. Joe Wright would be attached to direct. Playtone previously acquired the rights to Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods, which it’s developing as an HBO series; in November 2012, Gaiman tweeted that he was working on scripting the pilot. Little other news has emerged about the American Gods series since the 2011 acquisition leaked against Gaiman’s wishes, but ...
- 3/1/2013
- avclub.com
Joe Wright is the finest fantasy director who has never actually made a traditional fantasy film. Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, Hanna, Anna Karenina-- all films that make masterful use of fantasy film elements (lush visuals, impossible romances, and larger-than-life characters) without ever going into supernatural or unearthly territory. But now Wright is set to finally dive into the deep end by adapting a new book from the current prince of fantasy storytelling, Neil Gaiman. The novel in question is The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won't actually be on store shelves until June of 2013. But even though the public hasn't had the chance to read the story yet, the synopsis screams pure Gaiman fantasy: The Ocean At The End...
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- 3/1/2013
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Neil Gaiman’s new novel “The Ocean At The End Of The Lane” isn’t even out yet (it will be published this June), but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from already snatching it up for movie adaptation. Tom Hanks, via his Playtone shingle, has picked up Gaiman’s “The Ocean At The End Of The Lane”, and has set “Hanna” (and more recently, “Anna Karenina”) director Joe Wright to take a stab at adapting it. No word on a writer yet, but that’ll be coming soon enough, I reckon. So what’s it all about? As with most Gaiman fiction, it’s quite the creative whopper: According to jacket copy, it’s about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family...
- 3/1/2013
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Focus Features, Playtone and Shoebox are set to acquire and produce a film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's upcoming novel "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane".
The story begins when a lodger steals a family car and committes suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.
Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything the young protagonist has just to stay alive when the menace is unleashed within his family.
His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
"Atonement" and "Anna Karenina" director Joe Wright is attached to helm. Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Paul Webster will produce.
Source: Deadline...
The story begins when a lodger steals a family car and committes suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.
Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything the young protagonist has just to stay alive when the menace is unleashed within his family.
His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
"Atonement" and "Anna Karenina" director Joe Wright is attached to helm. Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Paul Webster will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 3/1/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Trying to predict what Joe Wright will do next is a fool's errand. The director has moved effortlessly from literary adaptations ("Pride & Prejudice") to WWII sagas ("Atonement") to assassin thrillers ("Hanna") to Powell & Pressburger-styled melodrama ("Anna Karenina") with ease. But making a fantasy has long been an itch he's been eager to scratch, and a new version of "The Little Mermaid" was once something he was eager to do (though the recent run of fairy tales movies has taken a bit of his enthusiasm out of doing it). But now he's latched onto something that could finally see him take on the fantasy genre. Deadline reports that Focus Features and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone are snapping up the rights to Neil Gaiman's upcoming novel "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane," and Joe Wright is attached to direct. Sounds perfect to us. And the description...
- 3/1/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Joe Wright is being attached to direct, and his Shoebox Films partner Paul Webster is coming aboard to produce with Hanks and Goetzman. The film will be a co-production between Playtone and Shoebox. The Ocean At The End of the Lane will be published in June by William Morrow. According to jacket copy, it’s about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family’s car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our...
- 3/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Neil Gaiman is one of those authors in the select club whose stories are snapped up by studios as soon as they’re available. In fact, we suspect if executives could find a way to tunnel into Neil’s head and extract them as they’re hatched, everyone would be fighting for the chance to do it. But Focus Features has had to wait, and has now locked up the rights to The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, with Anna Karenina’s Joe Wright aboard to direct.Focus is working with Tom Hanks’ Playtone Company to develop the film. Ocean doesn’t hit bookshelves until June, but it promises to be another enchanting tale from the man behind Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods and more.The book’s story is told by a narrator recalling an incident that happened when he was seven and the family’s lodger stole...
- 3/1/2013
- EmpireOnline
Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has worked with Joe Wright since a 25-year old Wright made the 1998 short film “The End.” Since then the British filmmaker has become one of his generation’s most notable directors and McGarvey has been along for the ride every step of the way. In 2007, McGarvey earned an Oscar nomination for lensing “Atonement," which led to higher profile features such as last year’s “The Avengers.” It was only near the end of shooting “The Avengers” that Wright asked McGarvey to join him on “Anna Karenina.” And is McGarvey ever glad he did, with the journey culminating in...
- 2/17/2013
- by Gerard Kennedy
- Hitfix
Brian De Palma's new film Passion was one of our favorites at the Toronto International Film Festival. I raved and rambled on about the film in one of our correspondences (though, as you'll see, I was wrong about one key facet of the film's production):
A remake of the solid Alain Corneau corporate thriller Love Crime, De Palma plunges without hesitation into the iconography, audience expectations, and conventions of noirs, sex thrillers, corporate intrigue, post-Hitchcock films and Brian De Palma movies themselves, retaining the shell appearance of all of these things but hollowing them from the inside out. The result is something out of late Resnais—a study of a study. And that study, of course, is of the cinema image. Remember how Rebecca Romijn watches Stanwyck in Double Indemnity at the beginning of Femme Fatale, as if taking notes? The characters in Passion have taken notes from...
A remake of the solid Alain Corneau corporate thriller Love Crime, De Palma plunges without hesitation into the iconography, audience expectations, and conventions of noirs, sex thrillers, corporate intrigue, post-Hitchcock films and Brian De Palma movies themselves, retaining the shell appearance of all of these things but hollowing them from the inside out. The result is something out of late Resnais—a study of a study. And that study, of course, is of the cinema image. Remember how Rebecca Romijn watches Stanwyck in Double Indemnity at the beginning of Femme Fatale, as if taking notes? The characters in Passion have taken notes from...
- 10/1/2012
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The line-up for the 2011 Venice Film Festival was unveiled a little earlier today and this year’s edition looks particularly stacked on the English-language side of things with a large number of dramatic outputs from the U.K. and U.S.
Dozens and dozens of high-intrigue fare are set to be premiering over the two week event which kicks off proceedings on August 31st with the George Clooney directed political thriller The Ides of March as an in-competition film. A trailer was released last night and you can see it Here.
The other big headliners include;
Working Title’s attempt to bring the classic John Le Carre novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to the big screen for the first time (though there was an amazing 70′s t.v. series with Alec Guinness that this film will need to go to some quality to beat) has been on our radar every...
Dozens and dozens of high-intrigue fare are set to be premiering over the two week event which kicks off proceedings on August 31st with the George Clooney directed political thriller The Ides of March as an in-competition film. A trailer was released last night and you can see it Here.
The other big headliners include;
Working Title’s attempt to bring the classic John Le Carre novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to the big screen for the first time (though there was an amazing 70′s t.v. series with Alec Guinness that this film will need to go to some quality to beat) has been on our radar every...
- 7/28/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
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