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 compares Alicia Vikander-led Freakshift to “50s B-Movie”
Over the past decade, through such films as Kill List, High-Rise and Sightseers, it’s become quite clear that Wheatley has no interest in giving audiences the same film they’ve seen a dozen times before. Each one of his films is something idiosyncratic, bold and impossible for any other filmmaker to recreate. With his next film Freakshift, which […]
Armie Hammer joins Alicia Vikander in Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift
Ben Wheatley continues to assemble his cast for his next film Freakshift, with Deadline reporting that Armie Hammer is set to reunite with his Free Fire director, signing on to appear alongside Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander in the action thriller. Freakshift is set to go into production in August, and follows a band of misfits who […]
Alicia Vikander to hunt monsters in Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift
With his latest film Free Fire currently earning rave reviews from critics ahead of its release at the end of this month [read our reviews here and here], British filmmaker Ben Wheatley is now prepping his next project Freakshift, and it looks like he may have found an Oscar-winning star for the lead. According to […]
