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An interview with the director, Reg Traviss, July 18th

I’m working on a film called Screwed. It’s a prison thriller and really interesting because it’s from the perspective of the prison officer. It’s based on a young prison officer who has left the army and had a bad experience in Iraq. When he comes onto ‘Civvy Street’ he doesn’t know which way to go so it’s a bit of an identity crisis in many respects. He could go either way, but gets a job in uniform again and arrives in this prison system that is rife with corruption and it’s about his journey through it. I agreed to do it because it seemed original and we’re in pre-production now and shoot it at the end of the summer up north in a disused prison.

Have you cast it yet?

Yeah, we’re casting but I can’t say who is going to take the lead because he’s not contracted yet. I understand it’ll happen very soon. But there’s others cast like Frank Harper and Ricci Harnett who plays Peck in Psychosis. I’m really looking forward to it.

http://www.filmshaft.com/filmshaft-exclusive-director-reg-traviss-on-psychosis/

PS  Lisa found out that the filming begins next week!

Yes, I want to read the book, of course.

Some info:

Genre – Prison-crime thriller

Synopsis - A young war veteran becomes a prison officer as he attempts to exorcise his demons after returning from a harrowing tour in Afghanistan.

Source material – Novel written by Ronnie Thompson
Written by – Colin Butts and Ronnie Thompson
Produced by – Freddie Hutton-Mills and Bart Ruspoli
Directed by - Reg Traviss

aaaahhhhh... I just double-clicked it and nearly passed out.

It is LARGE!!!!  You can see James' irises.. dazzling greens and yellows.

Thank you so much for the picture, Shananabean!!!    *thud*

And WELCOME to the cosy forum!!!  Make yerself at home...   

aaahhhh... so James will be a prison warden?  

http://www.ronniethompson.co.uk/

This is certainly vastly different from all his previous roles!!!      Wow!  

But then, James is so brilliant at surprising us and keeping us on our toes.  

Ronnie tweeted about a character called Sam Norwood.  Oh boy, I think we'll have to read his book to find out.

Welcome, shananabean! Thanks for the pic!

James will play lead in Screwed, a feature film based on Ronnie Thomson's book about life in a British prison!

SCREWED the feature film, is coming on f*****g great. We are financed, have a team in place and will be casting very soon. We have a couple of tweaks to do on the script first, then BOOM! Pre-production does take some time, though. Locations, schedules, cast, crew etc etc. But if things go well, we should be shooting in no time at all, which is very, very exciting and is sure fire to be a big hit.

http://www.myspace.com/ronnie_screwed/blog#ixzz0yuz4Dt1O

Ronnie Thomson twitted yesterday that James is a lead.

First post  HI EVERYONE!

I wanted to sure this wonderfulness with you  I know this picture has been posted before, but I don't believe I've seen it at this size here.  It's huge so you'll have to click the thumbnail.

Edward was short and James is rather tall  They casted him to play Edward despite his height, so maybe they really made him to wear blue lenses to make him look more like the prince did?
James doesn't look like Edward at all, blue lenses or not, being much much more handsome. But Andrea resembles Wallis very much.

I'm sure they'll make James wear blue contact lenses.

Edward was said to have bright blue eyes and blonde hair.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot of coloured photos of him when he was younger...  only a few when he was older when his eyes no longer shone as brightly.



His home outside Paris.

Oh yeah, we need a closer look indeed!