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Franklyn

January 01, 1970

For the name, see Franklyn (name).

Franklyn is a 2008 British science fantasy film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow as his debut feature. The film stars Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, and Sam Riley.

Franklyn
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGerald McMorrow
Written byGerald McMorrow
Produced byJeremy Thomas
Starring
CinematographyBen Davis
Edited byPeter Christelis
Music byJoby Talbot
Production
companies
Distributed byeOne
Release dates
  • 16 October 2008 (2008-10-16) (LFF)
  • 27 February 2009 (2009-02-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£6 million[1]

Franklyn had its world premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 16 October 2008, and was released in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2009, by eOne.

Plot edit

In a comic book-like world, Jonathan Preest is the masked vigilante of Meanwhile City, where everyone is legally enforced to adopt a religion. Preest, the only atheist in town, learns that his nemesis, The Individual, has kidnapped a girl. While looking for her, he is captured by the local authorities. Promising to eventually release him, they bring Preest to an operating room to implant a homing device on him. Before they can do that, Preest fights his way out of the building.

In a reality like our own, Emilia is a troubled art student living in London.[2] During one of her arts projects, she records herself calling an ambulance and taking a deadly amount of pills. The ambulance arrives in time to save her, and she wakes up in a hospital.

In that same building, Peter, a religious man, looks for his son David, who has become mentally unstable after returning from the war. He has been reported to be at that hospital before fleeing.[3]

After learning that the kidnapped girl has been killed by the Individual, Preest visits Wormsnake, his usual informant, and attacks him. Pretending he wants to arrange a meeting to talk things out, Preest gives Wormsnake a note with an address and tells him to give it to the Individual. He then hides in the building in front of the one referenced in the note and, holding a sniper rifle, awaits the Individual.

Another one of Emilia's projects is secretly following and recording strangers, occasionally disguising herself with a red wig. One of the strangers is named Milo, and his fiancée left him days before the wedding. Heartbroken, Milo starts believing an old childhood friend, a redhead named Sally, is everywhere he goes. He eventually talks to Sally, who looks a lot like Emilia, and arranges a date at a restaurant. Milo later learns from his mother that Sally is imaginary; a character he constructed as a child while dealing with the death of his father. He nonetheless goes to the restaurant the night of the date.

At a shelter for the homeless, Peter meets Bill, an old acquaintance of David from his time in Basra. David recently attacked Bill and gave him a note with an address. Bill, who looks a lot like Wormsnake, fears David will kill him.

After a conversation with the hospital's janitor and another botched suicide attempt, Emilia decides to confront her mother. It turns out that, as a child, Emilia was abused by her father and told her mother about it. For her entire life, Emilia has thought that her mother did not believe her. Her mother reveals that she did believe Emilia, and that is why they left her father. The two women reconcile.

Peter goes to the address in Bill's note, which turns out to be the building where Emilia lives. Baffled, he decides to go to the restaurant in front of the building, the same where Milo is "dating" Sally.

David, who looks a lot like Preest, breaks into Emilia's apartment, hits her and uses her window to aim a rifle at his father in the restaurant below. The Meanwhile City reality is actually a fantasy constructed by David after the trauma of both the war and losing his sister at a young age. When she died, Peter told David that her death was part of God's plan, in an attempt to reasure him. Peter's attitude had the opposite effect on David, who has resented his father ever since. Believing himself to be a hero, he shoots at the exact moment that Milo stands up to "kiss" Sally. The bullet ends up hitting Milo and makes everyone around him panic. Meanwhile, in yet another suicide attempt, Emilia turns on the gas heater. Realizing what he has actually done, David commits suicide by igniting the gas, causing an explosion that destroys the apartment. Emilia, who was running out of the apartment, survives. Leaving the building, she is spotted by Milo. As the paramedics arrive on the scene, Milo and Emilia meet.

Cast edit

Production edit

Writer-director Gerald McMorrow wrote the original science fiction script Franklyn as his feature debut. It depicts a similar dystopia to his 2002 short Thespian X.[10] In October 2006, actor Ewan McGregor was cast as the lead in the film, which was slated to begin production in summer 2007.[11] However, McGregor broke his leg in a biking accident in February 2007 during the second series of Long Way Round and was forced to leave the project.[12][13] Actors Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, and newcomer Sam Riley were cast in Franklyn in September 2007.[8] Phillippe was the last to be cast in what McMorrow termed a 'now or never' situation, saying of their first meeting: "You have preconceptions about people... You expect the bleach-blond Californian kid and what you got was an incredibly erudite, brought-up-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks Philadelphia actor. When I met him we did not stop talking all afternoon."[12]

McMorrow's visual inspiration for Meanwhile City came from the religious iconography he saw in Mexico City shopping malls.[12] He later explained: "The idea was that if you're going to have a capital city based on religion, you've got somewhere like Florence or Rome and send somewhere like that three miles into the sky... Part of Preest's delirium and fantasies are based on the religion surrounding him and comics he read and films he saw. He sort of pieces together a jigsaw of his own delusions."[12] Preest's mask was primarily influenced by Claude Rains' film of H. G. Wells' novel The Invisible Man. Preest also bears a resemblance to the character Rorschach in Watchmen, not only in terms of clothing but in terms of character.[12]

Franklyn had a budget of £6 million, of which £1 million was provided by the UK Film Council through its Premiere Fund. Production began on 24 September 2007 in and around London, and was completed by December 2007.[6][14] Major locations included an East End bar and Greenwich Naval College, where many of the CGI sequences were shot.[5] McMorrow described his approach, "I used an atypical and off-kilter background, and told a story that wouldn't normally be told. The film was set around some tricky locations but we managed to shoot it."[15] The film entered post-production by April 2008.[16]

Reception edit

Franklyn opened to mixed reviews, receiving a 57% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Rights to Franklyn were purchased from sales and financier HanWay Films by Contender Films for the United Kingdom, and Seville Pictures for Canada, with both distributors operating under their parent company Entertainment One.[16] Franklyn premiered at the 52nd London Film Festival on 16 October 2008.[17] The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2009.[18]

Dave Calhoun of Time Out opined: "Produced by British industry veteran Jeremy Thomas, McMorrow’s admirable if not entirely coherent debut follows the lives of four people in and around London who are attempting to cope with various crises in their lives, from a relationship break-up and the search for a missing son to the psychological after-effects of military service. The film treads a fine line between realism and fantasy, occasionally dipping out of the world as we know it to visit a seductively strange vision of the capital that appears part-futuristic and part-medieval (and which gives the film its name). Riley follows Control by leaning heavily on middle-distance stares and up-turned collars, while Green is a troubled art student with a good line in haute couture, and Philippe is a troubled ex-soldier. The main problem is that by the time this tricksy film finally plays its hand, many viewers may already have been lost at the wayside."[19]

Derek Elley of Variety thought the premise better suited to a novella rather than a feature film, believing that Franklyn lacked an emotional payoff. Elley criticized the script for not developing the ideas it introduced and for lacking background on the characters. The critic also considered Phillippe and Riley to be poor casting in their roles, while Green could not present her dual roles dramatically.[4] Jason Solomons of The Observer reviewed the film, "The visual style is impressive but the storylines are thin and the characters all extremely irritating."[20] Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International weighed in: "It's unusual in the current film-making climate to see an independent director making such an ambitious debut as Gerald McMorrow's Franklyn. He aims high, visually and conceptually, but a more experienced director would have trouble finding the right tone to pull this intricate plot off. Notices should be at least encouraging: McMorrow has pulled off a very handsome look on a limited budget."[21]

References edit

  1. ^ "Franklyn-UK Box Office". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Franklyn Movie Review". FilmFour. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Elley, Derek (21 October 2008). "Franklyn Movie Review". Variety. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  5. ^ a b c d e Utichi, Joe (27 November 2007). "Exclusive: RT Visits the Set of Franklyn". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  6. ^ a b Spelling, Ian (5 December 2007). . Sci Fi Wire. Sci Fi Channel. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  7. ^ Johnson, G. Allen (2 December 2007). "Role as flying witch lifts Green's profile". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  8. ^ a b Thomas, Archie (20 September 2007). "Phillippe, Green, Riley join 'Franklyn'". Variety. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
  9. ^ "Franklyn – review | cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  10. ^ . ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
  11. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (31 October 2006). "McGregor lands in future". Variety. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
  12. ^ a b c d e Reynolds, Simon. "Gerald McMorrow ('Franklyn')", "Digital Spy", 27 February 2009.
  13. ^ Young, Fiona (25 February 2007). "Exclusive: Ewan Pain? Exclusive Star Breaks Leg In Bike Smash". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
  14. ^ Kemp, Stuart (21 September 2007). "Riley on board McMorrow's 'Franklyn'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 September 2007.[dead link]
  15. ^ Pambrun, Chris (4 October 2008). "New directions". The Times.
  16. ^ a b Kemp, Stuart (1 April 2008). "Contender takes 'Franklyn,' 'Eddie' from HanWay". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 April 2008.[dead link]
  17. ^ . London Film Festival. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
  18. ^ "New Franklyn Artwork". ComingSoon.net. Coming Soon Media, L.P. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
  19. ^ Calhoun, Dave (27 November 2008). . Time Out. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  20. ^ Solomons, Jason (19 October 2008). "London Film Festival: All the president's close-ups". The Observer.
  21. ^ Halligan, Fionnuala (29 October 2008). . Screen International. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2009.

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For the name see Franklyn name Franklyn is a 2008 British science fantasy film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow as his debut feature The film stars Eva Green Ryan Phillippe and Sam Riley FranklynTheatrical release posterDirected byGerald McMorrowWritten byGerald McMorrowProduced byJeremy ThomasStarringEva Green Ryan Phillippe Sam RileyCinematographyBen DavisEdited byPeter ChristelisMusic byJoby TalbotProductioncompaniesRecorded Picture Company Film4 UK Film Council HanWay FilmsDistributed byeOneRelease dates16 October 2008 2008 10 16 LFF 27 February 2009 2009 02 27 United Kingdom Running time95 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget 6 million 1 Franklyn had its world premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 16 October 2008 and was released in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2009 by eOne Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 5 References 6 External linksPlot editIn a comic book like world Jonathan Preest is the masked vigilante of Meanwhile City where everyone is legally enforced to adopt a religion Preest the only atheist in town learns that his nemesis The Individual has kidnapped a girl While looking for her he is captured by the local authorities Promising to eventually release him they bring Preest to an operating room to implant a homing device on him Before they can do that Preest fights his way out of the building In a reality like our own Emilia is a troubled art student living in London 2 During one of her arts projects she records herself calling an ambulance and taking a deadly amount of pills The ambulance arrives in time to save her and she wakes up in a hospital In that same building Peter a religious man looks for his son David who has become mentally unstable after returning from the war He has been reported to be at that hospital before fleeing 3 After learning that the kidnapped girl has been killed by the Individual Preest visits Wormsnake his usual informant and attacks him Pretending he wants to arrange a meeting to talk things out Preest gives Wormsnake a note with an address and tells him to give it to the Individual He then hides in the building in front of the one referenced in the note and holding a sniper rifle awaits the Individual Another one of Emilia s projects is secretly following and recording strangers occasionally disguising herself with a red wig One of the strangers is named Milo and his fiancee left him days before the wedding Heartbroken Milo starts believing an old childhood friend a redhead named Sally is everywhere he goes He eventually talks to Sally who looks a lot like Emilia and arranges a date at a restaurant Milo later learns from his mother that Sally is imaginary a character he constructed as a child while dealing with the death of his father He nonetheless goes to the restaurant the night of the date At a shelter for the homeless Peter meets Bill an old acquaintance of David from his time in Basra David recently attacked Bill and gave him a note with an address Bill who looks a lot like Wormsnake fears David will kill him After a conversation with the hospital s janitor and another botched suicide attempt Emilia decides to confront her mother It turns out that as a child Emilia was abused by her father and told her mother about it For her entire life Emilia has thought that her mother did not believe her Her mother reveals that she did believe Emilia and that is why they left her father The two women reconcile Peter goes to the address in Bill s note which turns out to be the building where Emilia lives Baffled he decides to go to the restaurant in front of the building the same where Milo is dating Sally David who looks a lot like Preest breaks into Emilia s apartment hits her and uses her window to aim a rifle at his father in the restaurant below The Meanwhile City reality is actually a fantasy constructed by David after the trauma of both the war and losing his sister at a young age When she died Peter told David that her death was part of God s plan in an attempt to reasure him Peter s attitude had the opposite effect on David who has resented his father ever since Believing himself to be a hero he shoots at the exact moment that Milo stands up to kiss Sally The bullet ends up hitting Milo and makes everyone around him panic Meanwhile in yet another suicide attempt Emilia turns on the gas heater Realizing what he has actually done David commits suicide by igniting the gas causing an explosion that destroys the apartment Emilia who was running out of the apartment survives Leaving the building she is spotted by Milo As the paramedics arrive on the scene Milo and Emilia meet Cast editEva Green in a dual role as Emilia and Sally 4 Emilia is a damaged student who films her would be suicide attempts as installations for her art degree 5 Eva Green has compared her to real people Sophie Calle and Tracey Emin 6 and described Sally as full of life very witty big sense of humor 7 Ryan Phillippe as Jonathan Preest a masked vigilante detective from Meanwhile City Preest is the only atheist in town 5 Luke Pettican as young Jonathan Preest Sam Riley as Milo a young man who has just been jilted at the altar 5 Riley was cast based on his performance as Ian Curtis in the 2007 film Control 8 Bernard Hill as Peter Esser a Cambridge church warden looking for his wayward son in London 5 James Faulkner as Pastor Bone 4 Art Malik as Tarrant the head of Meanwhile City s Ministry 4 Susannah York as Margaret 4 Richard Coyle as Dan 4 Kika Markham as Naomi 4 Vauxhall Jermaine as Leon Stephen Walters as Wormsnakes Wasnik 9 Production editWriter director Gerald McMorrow wrote the original science fiction script Franklyn as his feature debut It depicts a similar dystopia to his 2002 short Thespian X 10 In October 2006 actor Ewan McGregor was cast as the lead in the film which was slated to begin production in summer 2007 11 However McGregor broke his leg in a biking accident in February 2007 during the second series of Long Way Round and was forced to leave the project 12 13 Actors Eva Green Ryan Phillippe and newcomer Sam Riley were cast in Franklyn in September 2007 8 Phillippe was the last to be cast in what McMorrow termed a now or never situation saying of their first meeting You have preconceptions about people You expect the bleach blond Californian kid and what you got was an incredibly erudite brought up the wrong side of the tracks Philadelphia actor When I met him we did not stop talking all afternoon 12 McMorrow s visual inspiration for Meanwhile City came from the religious iconography he saw in Mexico City shopping malls 12 He later explained The idea was that if you re going to have a capital city based on religion you ve got somewhere like Florence or Rome and send somewhere like that three miles into the sky Part of Preest s delirium and fantasies are based on the religion surrounding him and comics he read and films he saw He sort of pieces together a jigsaw of his own delusions 12 Preest s mask was primarily influenced by Claude Rains film of H G Wells novel The Invisible Man Preest also bears a resemblance to the character Rorschach in Watchmen not only in terms of clothing but in terms of character 12 Franklyn had a budget of 6 million of which 1 million was provided by the UK Film Council through its Premiere Fund Production began on 24 September 2007 in and around London and was completed by December 2007 6 14 Major locations included an East End bar and Greenwich Naval College where many of the CGI sequences were shot 5 McMorrow described his approach I used an atypical and off kilter background and told a story that wouldn t normally be told The film was set around some tricky locations but we managed to shoot it 15 The film entered post production by April 2008 16 Reception editFranklyn opened to mixed reviews receiving a 57 Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rights to Franklyn were purchased from sales and financier HanWay Films by Contender Films for the United Kingdom and Seville Pictures for Canada with both distributors operating under their parent company Entertainment One 16 Franklyn premiered at the 52nd London Film Festival on 16 October 2008 17 The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2009 18 Dave Calhoun of Time Out opined Produced by British industry veteran Jeremy Thomas McMorrow s admirable if not entirely coherent debut follows the lives of four people in and around London who are attempting to cope with various crises in their lives from a relationship break up and the search for a missing son to the psychological after effects of military service The film treads a fine line between realism and fantasy occasionally dipping out of the world as we know it to visit a seductively strange vision of the capital that appears part futuristic and part medieval and which gives the film its name Riley follows Control by leaning heavily on middle distance stares and up turned collars while Green is a troubled art student with a good line in haute couture and Philippe is a troubled ex soldier The main problem is that by the time this tricksy film finally plays its hand many viewers may already have been lost at the wayside 19 Derek Elley of Variety thought the premise better suited to a novella rather than a feature film believing that Franklyn lacked an emotional payoff Elley criticized the script for not developing the ideas it introduced and for lacking background on the characters The critic also considered Phillippe and Riley to be poor casting in their roles while Green could not present her dual roles dramatically 4 Jason Solomons of The Observer reviewed the film The visual style is impressive but the storylines are thin and the characters all extremely irritating 20 Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International weighed in It s unusual in the current film making climate to see an independent director making such an ambitious debut as Gerald McMorrow s Franklyn He aims high visually and conceptually but a more experienced director would have trouble finding the right tone to pull this intricate plot off Notices should be at least encouraging McMorrow has pulled off a very handsome look on a limited budget 21 References edit Franklyn UK Box Office Box Office Mojo FRANKLYN Film Review Archived from the original on 7 October 2009 Retrieved 2 October 2009 Franklyn Movie Review FilmFour Retrieved 15 January 2009 a b c d e f g Elley Derek 21 October 2008 Franklyn Movie Review Variety Retrieved 15 January 2009 a b c d e Utichi Joe 27 November 2007 Exclusive RT Visits the Set of Franklyn Rotten Tomatoes IGN Entertainment Inc Retrieved 11 March 2008 a b Spelling Ian 5 December 2007 Green Completes Franklyn Sci Fi Wire Sci Fi Channel Archived from the original on 2 March 2009 Retrieved 11 March 2008 Johnson G Allen 2 December 2007 Role as flying witch lifts Green s profile San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved 11 March 2008 a b Thomas Archie 20 September 2007 Phillippe 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