Prevenge and Timestalker filmmaker Alice Lowe has lined up two genre projects, including a horror version of the William Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.<\/p>\n
The second project, Deadline reports, is Sprites, a dark comedy horror about a little girl joining a girl guide group. Lowe will write, direct, and play a key role in both.<\/p>\n
Shakespeare\u2019s classic comedy stageplay centered around the wedding of Duke\u00a0Theseus\u00a0of\u00a0Athens\u00a0and the\u00a0Amazon\u00a0queen\u00a0Hippolyta, set in a woodland fairyland where identities get crossed and romantic entanglements get comically messy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lowe aims to lean into the strangeness of it all. The filmmaker told Deadline,\u00a0\u201cI wanted to make a classic, and it struck me that\u00a0Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, which I know so well, is always made in the same way over and over. It\u2019s so genuinely funny. But also fey and fairies and blah blah blah. But I don\u2019t see why it couldn\u2019t be revisited with how terrifying and odd everything happens in it, and how the undercurrents are actually so dark and strange.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comedy will also play a driving role in Lowe\u2019s original project, Sprites.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe film in some ways is autobiographical. It\u2019s set in the early 80s, which is a period that fascinates me. It\u2019s a time when things were rapidly changing and I think the onset of the individualism that is today the mainstay of our psyches and society at large. It was also a confusing time, for me, because I was an actual child! But I also see it as a transition between the trust in the monarchy, authority, in the church, in religion, in the community and into something more formless and self-centred. Sort of liminal. You only have to look at Jimmy Savile and how he slipped through the cracks to see how there was a perception or culture shift,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n
Both are part of a two-picture deal with UK production company Western Edge Pictures. Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prevenge and Timestalker filmmaker Alice Lowe has lined up two genre projects, including a horror version of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94828,94829,96,2839,38699,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-222038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a-midsummer-nights-dream","tag-alice-lowe","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sprites","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}