While last year’s Tomb Raider wasn’t exactly a huge smash at the box office, its $275 million haul has proven enough to warrant a sequel, and now Deadline is reporting that British filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Free Fire) has signed on to direct Alicia Vikander’s second outing as video game icon Lara Croft. Wheatley’s […]
Ben Wheatley to direct Brexit-inspired zombie series Generation Z
Kill List and Free Fire director Ben Wheatley has announced that he is teaming with Channel 4 and production company The Forge for Generation Z, a six-part satirical zombie series which will pit the UK’s disaffected youth against “smug, self-satisfied, small-minded ‘Little Englander’ pensioners whose remaining sole purpose in life is to make it a […]
Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca fills out supporting cast as filming begins
Netflix has announced that Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard), Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale), Sam Riley (Free Fire) and Ben Crompton (Game of Thrones) have been cast alongside the previously announced Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James and Armie Hammer in director Ben Wheatley’s (Free Fire, High-Rise) upcoming adaptation of the classic Daphne Du Maurier novel Rebecca. The […]
Kristin Scott Thomas to play Mrs. Danvers in Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca
Back in November of last year it was announced that Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) are heading to Manderley for Free Fire director Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, and now comes word that the project has found its Mrs. Danvers. In a rather great piece of […]
Ben Wheatley, Armie Hammer and Lily James heading to Manderley for Rebecca
Netflix and Working Title Films are teaming acclaimed British filmmaker Ben Wheatley with his Free Fire star Armie Hammer and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again actress Lily James for an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca, with Jane Goldman (The Woman in Black) penning the script. The film will see James taking […]
Movie Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Charles Dance and Joe Cole. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead., 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Bill Paterson, Doon Mackichan, Charles Dance, Sam Riley, Joe Cole, Hayley Squires, Alexandra Maria Lara, Richard Glover, Asim Chaudhry, Sarah Baxendale, Mark Monero, Peter Ferdinando, Sinead Matthews, Sura Dohnke, Sudha Bhuchar and Vincent Ebrahim. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for […]
First poster for Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ahead of its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival next month, a poster has arrived online for Ben Wheatley’s latest film Happy New Year, Colin Burstead; take a look here… “The film centres around Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) who hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin […]
Free Fire director Ben Wheatley has reportedly been offered a Marvel movie
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, best known for mad bullet ballet Free Fire, has reportedly been offered a “big Marvel film”, according to a passing comment on The Adam Buxton Podcast. Buxton was interviewing comedian and actor Bob Mortimer, who suggested a road trip movie project had been scuppered by the offer to Wheatley, though Mortimer […]
Ben Wheatley begins production on mystery new project Colin You Anus
Although it was thought that his next project would be the sci-fi thriller Freakshift starring Alicia Vikander, Armie Hammer and Sasha Lane, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has taken to Instagram to announce that he’s started production on a mystery new project, which is going by the working title of Colin You Anus. Details on the […]
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