Films like Zardoz and Brazil are massively influential to me, but I try not to be that postmodern film-maker who just drops stuff in, although it does seep through sometimes.”. Some critics have gotten that wrong. What makes it all break down in the book is that they’re put together in what is meant to be a kind of utopia, and then they all join together in moaning about stuff that’s broken. The bastard children of Tarantino are many, most of them mere imitators. It’s all those things really rolled into one. Wheatley met Jump at a Feet First indie night at the Camden Palace and they married in 2006. It’s trying to find a balance where we can talk about what our collaboration is, and whether or not the director is actually the main creative force on the film, because on our films it’s a shared position. One is the costume party. They’re going there… in a giant head?! Both depict a future in which a class-segregated society is teetering on the brink of collapse; both imagine lavish idylls and increasingly hellish environs existing side by side. But then that thinking goes on and on, and eventually you get too far away from the book, and more importantly from the technology. I would have read it in like ’86 or ’87. If you want stuff to be a certain way you have to write it yourself, that’s just the way it is. ’70s parents could have! And the rest of the film is: what do they do next?”. It’s actually quite the kind of costume party, I think, that that type of person — Royal’s wife — would have. Amy wrote the script, edits with you and also is your wife. It’s just this moment. That I like a lot.

In general, across the movie, I wanted the film to be sexier than the other films I’ve made.

I feel that that’s what the ’70s is slowly disappearing into, as is the ’80s. Also the power that they had was an old power, maybe a doomed power as well. But we’re about to come to blows over an altogether more ethereal matter: John Boorman’s notoriously bonkers 1974 sci-fi pic Zardoz. But when I mention these, he looks sheepish. I like it in the way that I like stuff by Philip K. Dick, or even Kubrick’s The Shining, where there’s a pulpy B-movie story that fits on the top of a complex meditation on futuristic ideas. Hiddleston had previously worked with Thomas on Jim Jarmusch 's 2013 film Only Lovers Left Alive. She also acted as co-editor on a bunch of those (and more) with Wheatley so her addition to a potential Tomb Raider 2 is so, so exciting! Because if anything is even slightly moving, you can’t hit it. Last year in Chicago I did a talk at the university there.

But it isn’t. ... Every Ben Wheatley Movie, Ranked (According To Rotten Tomatoes) 24 September 2020 | Screen Rant; Rewind: ‘Free Fire’ Review 21 August 2020 | Nerdly; See all related articles » Around The Web | Powered by ZergNet. That’s like Daniel Craig doing Zardoz tomorrow. So you’ve got those two poles of Tom’s performances: the Loki [his character in The Avengers] end of the street, and the more improvised Joanna Hogg thing. Add a bio, trivia, and more. I also grew up in the ’70s. Wheatley wants to see if he can turn a shootout into the main course, rather than a dramatic side dish that finishes off the plot, as in say, The Wild Bunch or The Dirty Dozen. That’s what’s so great about Zardoz. It’s kind of why it all goes horribly wrong. Watching Kill List, I do think, ‘Fuck, I was mean’. Whether or not Tomb Raider 2 will go its own way or take inspiration from that reboot’s follow up games, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, remains to be seen. Ben Wheatley Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Ben Wheatley photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! That then coloured how those characters were brought forward.”. Relationship status Married : Sexuality Straight: Current Wife of Ben Wheatley: Amy Jump: Ex-girlfriends or ex-wives Has any kids? Which is weird, because if she’s the writer and editor of a particular film, her position of power creatively is almost as strong as that of the director.”, “She genuinely thinks that the work is all there is, and there’s nothing outside of what that statement is.

It starts to feel as though Amy Jump is the third person in the room with us, although there’s a good reason why she’s not here. I think that generation of adults has kind of brushed their parenting skills under the carpet. That was part of it, and then I wanted — it’s an obvious thing I guess, the Louis XIV stuff — to separate out [the richer residents of the upper floors].