He was initially optimistic about the movie's reception. It's this black comedy mixed with a bit of farce, with a bit of murder-mystery and a bit of femme fatale neo-noir." There are so many tangent storylines in there and they're all deeply interwoven. In an interview after the shoot, James told me: "I can't imagine, visually, how it will be like. With British actors Jim Sturgess and Theo James playing Keith and Guy, Billy Bob Thornton signed on as Samson Young. The shoot took place back in 2013, with Amber Heard cast in the key role of Nicola Six.
For Amber Heard, it was "one of the most difficult movies to film” Eventually, the script fell into the hands of Matthew Cullen, an acclaimed music video director for the likes of Adele, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. "I don't think there's anything particularly unfilmable about London Fields," he later noted in an interview with The Guardian, although his elaborate post-modern digressions hardly lent themselves to a glossy Hollywood movie. Other directors – Outlaw King's David Mackenzie and the prolific Michael Winterbottom – came and went.Ĭredited as co-writer alongside Roberta Hanley, Amis was adamant that his book could work on screen.
But after Cronenberg quit the project, London Fields began to spin out of control. A guide to the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2019: the top 15 things to doĪ movie adaptation has been in the works since 2001, when Amis wrote a script for the esteemed David Cronenberg, a director with a reputation for shooting 'unfilmable' novels like Crash and Naked Lunch.
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