The Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright
Aug 23 2017 • 28 mins
Host Stuart Wright talks THE TERROR OF HALLOW'S EVE with director Todd Tucker. Frightfest presents... ON DIGITAL HD 10 JUNE 2019 See it at HORROR CHANNEL FRIGHTFEST 24TH - 28TH AUGUST 2017 LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, WC2H 7NA. Programme and tickets are available at www.frightfest.co.uk/2017films/frig…-schedule.html www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html Follow at @FrightFest This is a britflicks.com podcast Intro and Outro music is a combination of samples from three creative commons files : "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to writer/director CHRIS SHEPHERD about his work in progress graphic novel 'ANFIELD ROAD' and 5 Great Films Shot On Location In Liverpool. WATERFRONT (1950)
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Okay everyone. I did this great podcast at the start of the year with screenwriter Stuart Wright. It's al about Liverpool on film. I picked five films and talked about the locations. But which five did I pick? Click the link to find out....
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Had a quick listen to the podcast posted earlier by kazuragifu (thanks again!)
The whole thing is a very worthwhile listen if you're interested in the mechanics of low-budget filmmaking (and can decipher various English regional accents!)
Of most interest to Gravesdiggers is a slightly more detailed synopsis of the story of Native and the role played by Rupert. This is delivered by Neil Atkinson, the co-writer and co-producer to Stuart Wright, from the Britflick podcast quite early on (from about 01:45)
Transcript below for those who are avoiding details.
SW: What's the story?
NA: 2 humanoids… becomes clear quite quickly that they're aliens and they're hunting down the planet which created this sound signal, not entirely dissimilar to Voyager. It becomes clear again, as they're in transit, they may well be looking to not just explore but also to colonise. They're a telepathic society and they're selected because they're the best telepaths to do this job. Two characters: one's called Eva and one's called Cane - Eva's played by Ellie Kendrick and Cane by Rupert Graves - and in transit, what happens to Rupert's character, Cane, is his telepathic connection, his twin, she dies and he's left completely isolated. So this society which exists around telepathy so that there's not design, there's not art, there's no other forms of communication because they're constantly connected to one another, he begins to fracture from it and goes through a series of issues and changes
SW: It's like he's discovering his own free will?
NA: Free will - but also just simply he's becoming more and more human with the negative connotations of that and positive connotations of that as well. Because he's no longer part of this wonderful collective which can achieve and be and propagate itself, he begins to find conflict, he begins to find art, he begins to find creativity, because if we could constantly communicate with one another perfectly then why would we be creative?
Fascinating premise - and I can't wait to see Rupert using all his acting skills (and those big brown eyes) to full effect at the moment of isolation (though I suspect it'll slay me!)
Some other random pieces of information:
They shot it in 13 days: 10 days on set and 3 days on location!
The whole cast were very keen and did it for practically no money because "they love what they do and they love the script".
One of the work experience people from the local college when asked what they'd learned replied that "film people are not arrogant - they're very down-to earth, no matter what they're known for" Of course, he could have been talking about anybody but... ;)
