David Mackenzie now helming London Fields - Britmovie

DB7 · 22-03-2004, 08:25 PM

David Cronenberg Helming London Fields Source: Variety Sunday, March 21, 2004

David Cronenberg (Spider) is directing London Fields, based on Martin Amis' 1991 novel of the same name.

The script, written by Roberta Hanley and Amis, follows a promiscuous psychic troubled by disturbing premonitions that are all the more unnerving for never being wrong. The story is set in and around a seedy London pub, where the psychic has come to meet the end her dreams have foretold: to be murdered by one of two men she meets there -- but which one?

No distributors have come aboard as yet, but discussions are taking place with several, and the film is going out to cast.

DB7 · 07-05-2008, 07:10 PM

Amis ventures back to London Fields after 19 years for film adaptation

Francesca Martin
Wednesday May 7, 2008
The Guardian

Martin Amis's darkly comic novel London Fields is being made into a film. Amis himself is collaborating on the adaptation of his controversial 1989 novel, and may even take a small part in the resulting film, which will be directed by David Mackenzie, best known for the films Hallam Foe, released last year, and 2003's Young Adam.

Amis is working on the screenplay with Roberta Hanley, co-founder of Muse Productions, the film production company behind indie hits such as as The Virgin Suicides, Buffalo 66 and American Psycho. It's a good fit for Amis's novel, which was omitted from the Booker prize shortlist in 1989 amid fierce debate after two of the prize's judges deemed it misogynistic. The novel centres on the character of Nicola Six, a femme fatale who foresees the exact date and manner of her own death in a dream. Not knowing who the future "murderer" might be, she manipulates three potential candidates - crook Keith Talent, rich banker Guy Clinch and terminally ill American author Samson Young - into meeting at the Black Cross pub in west London's Portobello Road for her impending death.

According to the film's producer, Chris Hanley, the crux of the storyline is that: "We don't know if it is free will or determinism - it really is a gripping plot that translates perfectly to film." Filming is scheduled to start later this year in London.

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DB7 Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 5,724 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	David Mackenzie now helming London Fields David Cronenberg Helming London Fields Source: Variety Sunday, March 21, 2004 David Cronenberg (Spider) is directing London Fields, based on Martin Amis' 1991 novel of the same name. The script, written by Roberta Hanley and Amis, follows a promiscuous psychic troubled by disturbing premonitions that are all the more unnerving for never being wrong. The story is set in and around a seedy London pub, where the psychic has come to meet the end her dreams have foretold: to be murdered by one of two men she meets there -- but which one? No distributors have come aboard as yet, but discussions are taking place with several, and the film is going out to cast.

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DB7 Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 5,724 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	Amis ventures back to London Fields after 19 years for film adaptation Francesca Martin Wednesday May 7, 2008 The Guardian Martin Amis's darkly comic novel London Fields is being made into a film. Amis himself is collaborating on the adaptation of his controversial 1989 novel, and may even take a small part in the resulting film, which will be directed by David Mackenzie, best known for the films Hallam Foe, released last year, and 2003's Young Adam. Amis is working on the screenplay with Roberta Hanley, co-founder of Muse Productions, the film production company behind indie hits such as as The Virgin Suicides, Buffalo 66 and American Psycho. It's a good fit for Amis's novel, which was omitted from the Booker prize shortlist in 1989 amid fierce debate after two of the prize's judges deemed it misogynistic. The novel centres on the character of Nicola Six, a femme fatale who foresees the exact date and manner of her own death in a dream. Not knowing who the future "murderer" might be, she manipulates three potential candidates - crook Keith Talent, rich banker Guy Clinch and terminally ill American author Samson Young - into meeting at the Black Cross pub in west London's Portobello Road for her impending death. According to the film's producer, Chris Hanley, the crux of the storyline is that: "We don't know if it is free will or determinism - it really is a gripping plot that translates perfectly to film." Filming is scheduled to start later this year in London.