“An example of unchecked male ego, it’s literally a bar fight gone ultimately wrong” After his hitman horror Kill List, killers-in-a-caravan comedy Sightseers, the LSD-fuelled Civil War tale A Field In England and J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise, Ben Wheatley has fast become one of the most admired British filmmakers of his generation. So much so, he caught the attention of Martin Scorsese. The esteemed director of Mean Streets and Goodfellas was in the UK making Hugo when he encountered Kill List, Wheatley’s 2011 follow-up to his no-budget debut Down Terrace.
Understandably, Wheatley was ecstatic when he read an interview with Scorsese waxing lyrical about this discovery. “[Scorsese’s] Taxi Driver was the first film I ever saw where I realised there was a director involved,” he says, fighting off a cold…
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