A Field In England (Period Civil War Psychedelic Acid Trip Cowboy Film with Big Hats)

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Full Interview here - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/2362...eld-in-england

If I’ve got my chronology right, between you premiering Sightseers at Cannes and sitting here doing this interview, you’ve completely shot and are now in post-production on your next film, A Field In England. I understand that one’s a more contracted shoot, and a bit more experimental?

It’s an English civil war period movie, in black and white, featuring Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley… Richard Glover from Sightseers is in it. Ryan Pope from Ideal. It’s a very weird film, but it’s kind of like a period film mixed with a Roger Corman acid trip, psychedelic 60s film. Lots of mushrooms and magic, and it’s a bit like a cowboy film too. With big hats.

That was a two week shoot?

Yeah.

I remember when Tarantino was breaking through, and his argument was that he’ll throw lots of different genres into each film, because he’s never going to get to all the stuff that he wants to make in his life. Is yours a slightly similar ethos?

No, it’s just the way the story’s come out. We don’t start and say we’re going to do this and this and this, you write the story and go it’s a bit like that. We didn’t even think of the cowboy thing until we were shooting it, and realised that they had pistols, and they had big hats. I started thinking these are the guys who go to America through religious persecution, and end up in the States. They would have turned into cowboys from that point.