The latest issue of Empire, as you might expect, is jampacked with all kinds of exclusive movie goodness, from The Avengers to American Pie: The Reunion to The Hunger Games.
But one of the things we’re most excited about doesn’t have a budget in the trillions, or capes, or a Hollywood background. Instead, it’s homegrown, low-key and very, very British. It is, of course, the first still from Sightseers, Ben Wheatley’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to Kill List.
Moody and evocative, it gives us our first glimpse of stars/co-writers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram as Tina and Chris, a caravanning couple who get mixed up in murder and mayhem (and more murder) as they embark on their first holiday together. There will be kills, and there may even be a list of some kind, but Wheatley insists that this is lighter fare than his last two outings, Down Terrace and the film that birthed the Kill List Stare. [Continue Reading]
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One of the movies people simply would not stop talking about at SXSW was Ben Wheatley’s British hitman movie, Kill List. Time and time again I found myself standing in line making idle chat and hearing that The Innkeepers was pretty great or that Insidious was creepy or that Attack the Block was a ton of fun, but when people started talking about Kill List, they took on an ominous tone. People wouldn’t even tell me what it’s about, they just demanded that I see it and promised even if I didn’t like the film, I’d still want to talk about it.
Just as his sophomore feature, Kill List, hits every VOD service known to man, writer and director Ben Wheatley chatted with ThePlaylist about his multiple, esoteric projects that are in widely varying states of development. The first of these is, appropriately, Sightseers, an Edgar Wright-produced dark comedy — written by and starring Alice Lowe & Steve Oram – that Wheatley previously said follows “a pair of psychotic caravaners.” It’s an appropriate jumping off point since, if all goes well, it’ll be premiering at this year’s South by Southwest.
