LOCKE EEN FILM VAN STEVEN KNIGHT WILD BUNCH WILLEMSSTRAAT 24B – 1015 JD – AMSTERDAM WWW.WILDBUNCH.NL [email protected] WILDBUNCHblx LOCKE – STEVEN KNIGHT PROJECT SUMMARY EEN PRODUCTIE VAN SHOEBOX FILM IN SAMENWERKING MET IM GLOBAL LAND VAN HERKOMST ENGELAND TAAL ENGELS LENGTE 85 MINUTEN GENRE DRAMA FILMMAKER STEVEN KNIGHT PRODUCER PAUL WEBSTER HOOFDROLLEN TOM HARDY RELEASEDATUM 9 OKTOBER 2014 FESTIVALS & AWARDS BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS – WINNAAR BESTE SCRIPT FILMFESTIVAL VENETIË – WERELDPREMIÈRE SUNDANCE FILMFESTIVAL – OFFICIËLE SELECTIE KIJKWIJZER SYNOPSIS Ivan Locke heeft hard gewerkt om een goed leven voor zichzelf op te bouwen. Hij houdt van zijn werk en adoreert zijn gezin. Op de vooravond van de grootste uitdaging uit zijn carrière, gaat zijn telefoon en wordt er een reeks gebeurtenissen in werking gezet. Terwijl Locke zijn auto instapt en de tijd weg begint te tikken, wordt duidelijk dat die ene verkeerde beslissing zijn leven voorgoed heeft veranderd. CAST IVAN LOCKE TOM HARDY KATRINA (VOICE) RUTH WILSON BETHAN (VOICE) OLIVIA COLMAN DONAL (VOICE) ANDREW SCOTT EDDIE (VOICE) TOM HOLLAND SEAN (VOICE) BILL MILNER CREW WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY STEVEN KNIGHT PRODUCED BY PAUL WEBSTER GUY HEELEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS STUART FORD DAVID JOURDAN STEVEN SQUILLANTE JOE WRIGHT CASTING DIRECTOR SHAHEEN BAIG DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY HARIS ZAMBARLOUKOS EDITOR JUSTINE WRIGHT PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER JOHN CASALI COMPOSED BY DICKON HINCHLIFFE COSTUME DESIGNER NIGEL EGERTON HAIR AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER AUDREY DOYLE LOCKE – STEVEN KNIGHT PRODUCTION NOTES Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) plays Ivan Locke. LOCKE is the story of one man’s life unravelling in a tension-fuelled 90-minute race against time. Ivan Locke has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line. Acclaimed UK actress Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, The Lone Ranger, Luther) plays Ivan’s wife Katrina. Double BAFTA-winner Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur, The Iron Lady and TV’s Broadchurch) is Bethan, the woman with whom Ivan has risked everything. The prestigious supporting cast includes BAFTA-winning actor Andrew Scott, best known for his portrayal of Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock, and renowned UK TV and stage actor Ben Daniels (House of Cards). Rising stars Tom Holland (The Impossible, How I Live Now) and Bill Milner (Son Of Rambow, X-Men First Class) play Ivan’s sons. They are joined by Danny Webb (A Little Chaos), Silas Carson (Star Wars: Episodes 1- 3), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Lee Ross (Secrets & Lies, The English Patient, Centurion), and Kirsty Dillon (The Look Of Love). The creative team is headed by director of photography Haris Zambarloukos (Mamma Mia, Thor), editor Justine Wright (State Of Play, The Iron Lady), and the BAFTA-nominated production sound mixer John Casali (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hummingbird). LOCKE shot for two weeks on location in London in February 2013. LONG SYNOPSIS “The difference between never and once is the whole world. The difference between never and once is the difference between good and bad.” Ivan Locke is an ordinary man, happily married with two young sons and a responsible job as the well-liked and respected construction director of one of the biggest building projects in Europe. One night the repercussions of something he did seven-and-a-half months earlier return to haunt him and he is forced to make a series of decisions that will utterly transform his life and the lives of those he loves. It will also threaten the construction of a multi-million dollar building. As he attempts to do the right thing and not repeat the mistakes of his own father, he risks losing everything; his job, his reputation, his family, the life he has fought so hard to build. Tom Hardy plays Ivan, whose night begins as he climbs into his car, leaves the building site in Birmingham and reaches a crossroads. If he turns right, it’s the route home to his wife and sons in Stratford-Upon -Avon. The left turn is the road to London where a woman called Bethan, played by Olivia Colman, waits for him to take responsibility for a mistake he committed months ago for which he must now pay a heavy price. He turns left. The motorway looms into view and Ivan knows he must make some telephone calls from the car. He has abandoned his post on the building site the night before the all-important concrete pour the next morning. He calls his boss Gareth (Ben Daniels) for whom disbelief quickly turns to fury. Gareth knows the site owners in Chicago will promptly fire Ivan, one of the best men with whom he has ever worked and swiftly dispatch a replacement to take over. But for Ivan, his sense of loyalty and responsibility means he is determined to see the job through. This means talking his somewhat feckless LOCKE – STEVEN KNIGHT colleague Donal, played by Andrew Scott, through the procedure from the car. Everything must be in place for the arrival of the concrete. The building is a big, prestigious one, costing millions of dollars. And if the concrete is not right, the building’s foundations will crumble. Ivan then calls home to reluctantly tell his family he won’t be coming home that night. He talks to his son, Eddie, played by Tom Holland, who doesn’t pay much attention to his father’s subdued tone, but later, when his wife Katrina (Ruth Wilson) calls him back, she gradually comprehends what Ivan is telling her and her world begins to fall apart. As he talks to Katrina and coaches Donal through the preparations for the concrete, Ivan also fields calls from an increasingly distressed Bethan. She is scared to give birth on her own and wants reassurance from Ivan. It is a moment in which his true feelings are revealed. He loves Katrina and his sons. Ivan is an honourable man and he wants his new child to grow up knowing who his father is, that his father is a man on whom the child can rely. It is very different from the relationship Ivan had with his own late father, the spectre of whom haunts Ivan during his long drive. As an adult, Ivan has freed himself from the dark shadow of his father and crafted a good life for himself. Tonight that life is collapsing around him. Ivan began this lonely drive with a job and a family. Now it may end with neither. In her grief, Katrina’s will is hardening against him. Decisions matter. The difference between never and once is everything. It is the difference between good and bad. As the lights become brighter and he turns off the motorway, Ivan’s own world darkens. Construction and destruction- it is the story of Ivan Locke’s life. Constructing Locke Writer-director Steven Knight began considering the nature of filmmaking when he was putting the finishing touches to his directorial debut Hummingbird at the end of 2012. “I wondered if I could strip the whole process down to the basics,” Knight explains. “The idea is to get a load of people in a room, turn the lights off and persuade them to look at a screen and engage with whatever is there.” “People talk about the journey and the arc and all that stuff. LOCKE boils all that down,” continues Knight, who received an Oscar nomination for his script Dirty Pretty Things in 2004. “In this film, the journey is a real journey and the arc is a real arc. Someone begins with a job and a family and a wife and by the end of the journey, pretty much in real time, he’s got nothing left.” LOCKE, starring Tom Hardy as Ivan Locke, is set almost entirely in a car. Ivan’s is the only face we see; the other characters are the voices at the other end of his sometimes angry, sometimes funny, often shattering telephone calls. The backdrop is a hypnotic vista of motorway lights, illuminating Ivan’s face as well as the demons he is battling and the choices he is making. The concept was inspired by a series of camera tests Knight had done for Hummingbird in which he had shot the view from a moving car using an Alexa camera. “It was mesmerising,” recalls Knight of the footage. “Cities and roads at night are beautiful, I could look at them for hours. And so I started thinking about whether you could tell a story that all takes place within a vehicle.” Knight, whose writing credits also include the 2007 crime thriller Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg, has a reputation in the industry as a very likeable and supremely talented writer. He took his idea for LOCKE to Shoebox Films, the emerging new UK company also producing Hummingbird, in November 2012. Shoebox is comprised of a troika of renowned film-makers: leading film executive Paul Webster, first assistant director-turned-producer Guy Heeley and acclaimed director Joe Wright, whose credits LOCKE – STEVEN KNIGHT include a startling, innovative take on Anna Karenina (produced by Webster). Their interest was piqued by Knight’s simple pitch. “Steve said, ‘I’m thinking about doing a movie and it’s not going to be a movie. It’s going to be like an installation piece, something you might see in a gallery’,” says Webster with a smile. “As a producer you remain impervious to all kinds of shocks, so Guy and I said, ‘OK, fine’. You think about how you would achieve that. You think, “OK, he wants to make a movie, we like him, we love his talent, and it will be good because everything Steve does is good.