Year: 2007
Duration: 105'
Frank Perry is a lifer resigned to spend his final days in prison until “Well, I love prison escape films in general. But i didn’t want to make
when he finds out that his beloved daughter is critically ill. His only
aim becomes to see her. He plans the escape with a crew of prisoners
but their conflicts risk to jeopardize the escape throught the tunnels
of subterranean London. To rejoin his daughter Frank needs to become
again the courageous man he was at a previous time.
The Escapist in the American style which tends to gloss over a lot of
details. There were several French films which were my models such as
Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Red Circle or The Godson. These are really
meticulous films which focus on the details of the escape and I like
that. I also wanted to convey a place where time stands still, as it does
in prison, through a very static camera style and then contrast that
with the speed and urgency of the escape.”
Biography
film director
Rupert Wyatt
Rupert Wyatt (Paris, France, 1972) studied Film in Paris. During the University he started writing for producers Claudie Ossard and Jean-Pierre Ramsay; in the next five years he wrote and developed features in New York for companies Shooting Gallery, Miramax and Radical Media. From 2000 to 2005 he worked in London and Liverpool directing episodic television and developing his own projects as the Picture Farm, the London and New York based Production Company he co-founded. He has written and directed fifteen short films including Get the Picture (2004) winner of the 2004 Cambridge Film Festival audience award. The Escapist is the last movie produced by Picture Farm and it’s the first time that Wyatt direct a features.
FILMOGRAFIA
Hollyoaks (TV, 1995), Ticks (cm, 1999), Subterrain (mm, 2001), Get the Picture (cm, 2004), The Escapist (Prison Escape, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Rupert Wyatt
sceneggiatura/screenplay Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy
fotografia/cinematography Philippe Blaubach
montaggio/film editing Joe Walker
scenografia/production design Jim Furlong
costumi/costume design Maeve Paterson
musica/music Benjamin Wallfisch
suono/sound Theo Green
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Brian Cox (Frank Perry),
Joseph Fiennes
(Lenny Drake),
Liam Cunningham (Brodie),
Seu Jorge (Viv Batista),
Dominic Cooper (Lacey),
Steven Mackintosh (Tony),
Damian Lewis (Rizza)
produttori/producers Adrian Sturges, Alan Moloney
produzione/production Parallel Films, Picture Farm Production
distribuzione/distribution Lucky Red
vendita all’estero/world sales Goalpost Film Ltd.
sceneggiatura/screenplay Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy
fotografia/cinematography Philippe Blaubach
montaggio/film editing Joe Walker
scenografia/production design Jim Furlong
costumi/costume design Maeve Paterson
musica/music Benjamin Wallfisch
suono/sound Theo Green
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Brian Cox (Frank Perry),
Joseph Fiennes
(Lenny Drake),
Liam Cunningham (Brodie),
Seu Jorge (Viv Batista),
Dominic Cooper (Lacey),
Steven Mackintosh (Tony),
Damian Lewis (Rizza)
produttori/producers Adrian Sturges, Alan Moloney
produzione/production Parallel Films, Picture Farm Production
distribuzione/distribution Lucky Red
vendita all’estero/world sales Goalpost Film Ltd.