'Kill List' Director Ben Wheatley's Next Is Psychedelic Civil War Movie 'A Field In England,' Starts Shooting Next Month

If it's one thing "Kill List," the outstanding domestic drama/dark comedy/gangster thriller/occult horror movie from earlier this year, taught us, it's that writer/director Ben Wheatley is beyond fearless. He boldly mixes genres and styles and comes up with something that is wholly unique and seemingly effortless. And this streak will continue, as it's just been announced that his next film will be a psychedelic UK-set Civil War movie called "A Fiend in England." It will begin shooting next month and will undoubtedly be really, really weird. According to an announcement on the Film4 website (the film will be the first to be developed and financed through Film4's "talent and ideas hub" Film4.0), the project will star Michael Smiley ("Kill List"), Peter Ferdinando, Reece Shearsmith ("The League of Gentlemen"), Julian Barratt ("The Mighty Boosh"), Richard Clover (Wheatley's "Sightseers," which...
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