'BOBBY ADAMS'

This is a great scene giving some background to the STEVE LYNCH character as he bumps into BOBBY ADAMS, whom he used to work with in the City.
BOBBY is played by the great David Cleveland-Dunn, who we shot three times in order to get this character exactly right. He was homeless in 2004, a Big Issue salesman in 2005 and now a man running a chain of newsagents in 2007.
This is another ungraded roughcut.
You may have noticed that the music seems the same under a lot of the video here. We use a piece from the soundtrack to the 2003 remake of 'Solaris' as our main guide track, as it has a good 'pulse' and a slightly eerie tone. Other soundtracks we have cut scenes to include 'Notes On A Scandal' and 'The Thin Red Line'.

RALPH & STEVE MEET

This is a roughcut of the initial part of the scene where STEVE LYNCH catches up with his old gangster mate RALPH in his seedy dance club in North London. Here Steve begs for Ralph's help and Ralph ends up up doing him a 'favour' that changes Steve's life forever.

TIM DALKEY SCENE SNIPPET

This is from the 2006 cut.
I've put it up because its such a great performance from Michael Greco. This is the scene we have been desperately trying to 'save'. Here Michael gives what we call the 'stupid' speech, and it captures perfectly the torment inside the STEVE LYNCH character at this moment in the day.

- MT

Steven Berkoff Video Excerpt

This is an excerpt from one of the biggest scenes in the film. Lawrence Masters (Steven Berkoff) is hosting his monthly big stakes poker game when Steve Lynch (Michael Greco) arrives to ask him a huge favour. 

The dialogue here is an ad lib of Steven's we turned into a mini-scene to introduce the Masters character. It perfectly captures the character's (and Steven's!) manic energy. 

We apologise for the grey-ing out at the beginning. That's a YouTube thing.

Jonathan & Home House

Michael Greco as 'Steve Lynch' enters Jonathan Porchester's home

We've finished doing the rough of the climactic Jonathan scene. This scene comes at the end of the film, and within it the terrible secret of the story is revealed. Its an acting tour de force from Michael Greco and Jake Maskall, and was shot in a day at Home House in Portman Square London. 

Home House is another of London's private clubs, a lovely restaurant and bar set in a very large 18thC townhouse just behind Selfridges. It was here, late one night, after far too many expensive scotches that this project was born, so it was fitting that the film should have its bloody denouement within its walls. 

It was another iffy day weather wise, so our 'sun' is a line of 10k lights scaffolded outside in the high wind. We also suffered a bizarre fault with one of the HD cameras that gave us footage with no blue component. That gives that camera's images a brutally hard, flame red appearance. We debated shooting it again (it wasn't the only scene affected and we were insured) but given the feel of the scene and where it falls in what will be a colour-saturated film, the hard red cast to everything kind of works. 

Above is one of my favourite stills from the film. With the interaction between Steve and the centurions of the painting, it looks almost composed. 

'Here he is, at last', they say. 

- MT

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Of Astons and Helen Liston

Helen Liston in front of Steve Lynch's Aston

We spent an enormous amount of time shooting in Northampton Park in Islington on this film. Its the widest street in Central London, has some beautiful Georgian terrace houses, and Islington Council are very easy to deal with re filming. In the photo you can see stellar runner/pm/all round awesome chick Helen Liston being clapper girl. Also note the non-timecode, non-electronic clapper board, last seen doing work on an early Charlie Chaplin movie.

Today was spent synching Steve Lynch's first conversation of his harrowing day with his business partner Peter Denby (Nick Townsend) which is made by phone from Steve's Aston. This car was a V12 Volante we hired for 3 days. Very nice, but not the easiest car to drive over London speedbumps.


Jeremy Henman as 'The Jogger'. Nice shorts.

Steve Lynch also has a confrontation with a jogger in this scene, that sets in motion the events of the rest of the day. Unfortunately George Clooney was unavailable, so we went with who we had to hand.