Having made a big name for himself last year with Kill List, Ben Wheatley returns this year to bring us Sightseers, the anticipated black comedy that has already been nominated for an impressive seven awards at the British Independent Film Awards.
The film has been earning terrific reviews on the festival circuit – you can read our review from TIFF here – and with its UK release just over a week away, StudioCanal have released the first TV spot.
“Chris (Steve Oram THE MIGHTY BOOSH) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe GARTH MARENGHI’S DARK PLACE) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life.
But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge…”
Wheatley is directing from a script co-written by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, both of whom also star in the leads, with the awesome Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) serving as executive producer.
Sightseers will be released in the UK and Ireland next Friday, 30th November. Still no word yet on when it will be heading to the US, but with such strong reviews from its festival tour, here’s to hoping it will be Stateside early next year. For now, here’s the great first TV spot to give you an idea of what Wheatley has in store for us. Enjoy. And be sure to head out to theatres next weekend when it hits.
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