Geoff Barrow, the co-founder of Portishead and Beak>, has co-written and produced his first characteristic movie, Sport, for launch via his Invada Movies imprint. Directed by longtime Barrow collaborator (and fellow Bristolian) John Minton, the film stars Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson alongside Marc Bessant in a thriller set amid the 1993 UK rave scene. After premiering on October 16 at Mayhem Movie Competition, in Williamson’s hometown of Nottingham, the film will obtain a theatrical launch in the UK and Eire from Friday, November 21. Watch the primary trailer under, and scroll down for a nonetheless from the movie and the Sport poster.
A number of years again, Barrow started speaking up the script on the web site that was then named Twitter. He publicly pitched Russell Crowe and reposted his personal request. And, when he introduced final yr that he can be leaving Beak>, he mentioned the choice was partly all the way down to his give attention to making movies. Upon the announcement of the discharge, he defined, “John [Minton] and I’ve labored collectively for over 20 years on music initiatives (Portishead and Invada music movies) and have at all times talked about making a characteristic collectively, the identical goes for Marc [Bessant] who I’ve labored carefully with for a few years. I’ve been a fan of Jason Williamson’s work, identical with Rob [Williams, screenwriter], via 2000AD, and we’ve been writing movie concepts collectively for the previous few years.” He added that he has one other two movies in improvement.
Barrow has an extended résumé of movie scores in collaboration with Ben Salisbury, together with Ex Machina, Civil Warfare, and Annihilation, in addition to an episode of Black Mirror.
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