Nearly a year to the day since Todd mentioned this project which bafflingly replaced its cast of Ewan MacGregor, Paul Bettany and John Hurt with Sam Riley, Ryan Phillippe, and Bernard Hill. Franklyn is the story of four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is no separation between Church and State (the fourth being Casino Royale girl Eva Green) directed by Gerald McMorrow. You'll find a link to the trailer (sadly in poor quality) below.
Esser is a broken man, searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of Londons homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student, her suicidal art projects becoming increasingly more complex and deadly. Preest is a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City; a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervour. Esser, Milo, Emilia, Preest- a group of people who couldnt be further apart. Their individual worlds are set for a cataclysmic collision. In an explosive finale, the path of a single bullet will decide the fate of our four lost souls....
im tired of masks in films...and those ones look ridiculous.
Interesting. Straight to DVD?
looks interesting, I'm always up for anything with Eva Green in it.
Just back from seeing the world premiere at the London Film Festival and i can report it's a great big mess. Really cheaply written, fall of characters who you just don't care about. Clearly wants to be a cult fim, i couldn't shake that the director wanted to create something like Donnie Darko, but he's been force fed a diet of alan moore and frank millar (only that sounds good, this isn't!). The whole thing is bogged down with the most awful narration..my toes are curling just thinging about it.
Theres a sense as you watch the film that it's building to something, but the pay off is just awful and is sign posted from almost the start. Sam Rileys character seems to be there simply to add a strange forced romantic subplot
Points award for a british film trying to be different but i left wishing they had tried a little harder!
I agree with the comment above. I desperately wanted to like Franklyn, and although it is great to see London shot in parallel to a creepy alternative universe, there is no escaping the poor script and/or performances. The plot twists are heavy handed and obvious with only a few moments that even remotely deliver on its promise.