Simon Pegg gaat de hoofdrol spelen in de nieuwe zwarte komedie A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Het gaat om een project waar Simon Pegg de fans al langer voor warm probeerde maakte, maar waar tot nu nog heel weinig over bekend was.
A Fantastic Fear of Everything is een film die zal worden geregisseerd door Chris Hopewell, die tot nu toe vooral videoclips maakte voor onder meer Radiohead en The Killers, en Crispian Mills.
De film gaat over een auteur van jeugdboeken die besluit misdaadboeken te schrijven en wiens onderzoek naar de levens van Victoriaanse seriemoordenaars hem tot een paranoïde wrak maakt. Het helpt daarbij niet als Hollywood bij hem aanklopt en een film wil maken naar aanleiding van zijn onderzoek.
De (zeer uitgebreide) synopsis vind je hieronder.
Jack is alone for Christmas. A former childrens author, now turned crime novelist, Jack spends his nights pacing about, entrenched in his latest script Decades of Death with only his gruesome research into Victorian serial killers for company.
A sensitive artist, who lacks even the simple courage to buy his own toilet paper, this research into all the most notorious hackers and poisoners of the late 19th century has made him paranoid and insomniac. Jack starts carrying a carving knife around with him due to an irrational fear of being murdered and begins to suspect everybody he meets, from the waiter in the restaurant, to the newspaper vendor, to the friendly local ASBO hoodies. But when Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst fears; among them, love, laundry, and, serial killers.
Its because of his agents unprecedented request that he look smart for the big meeting, that Jacks career now rests precariously on his ability to tackle his irrational fear of launderettes. However, Jack soon has to deal with far more than the simple embarrassment of exposing his own soiled load in public. Harangued by the ghost of his ex-wife, and guided by the sage-like counsel of his psychotherapist (who once cured a girl of her phobia of open bananas), Jack makes his fateful trip downtown, taking him through the shadowy dystopia of a modern Noir London and onto the bright neon lights of the Lotus Laundromat, where his inability to operate a washing machine, (and the unfortunate fact that hes still carrying a carving knife), triggers a series of unexpected events bringing him face to face with real danger, real crime, real fear, and even reality TV; involving an encounter with the most beautiful girl in London, a highly embarrassing personal injury, a bruising encounter with the strong arm of the law, and ultimately an unexpected fight for his life at the hands of a real serial killer
A Fantastic Fear of Everything is een film die zal worden geregisseerd door Chris Hopewell, die tot nu toe vooral videoclips maakte voor onder meer Radiohead en The Killers, en Crispian Mills.
De film gaat over een auteur van jeugdboeken die besluit misdaadboeken te schrijven en wiens onderzoek naar de levens van Victoriaanse seriemoordenaars hem tot een paranoïde wrak maakt. Het helpt daarbij niet als Hollywood bij hem aanklopt en een film wil maken naar aanleiding van zijn onderzoek.
De (zeer uitgebreide) synopsis vind je hieronder.
Jack is alone for Christmas. A former childrens author, now turned crime novelist, Jack spends his nights pacing about, entrenched in his latest script Decades of Death with only his gruesome research into Victorian serial killers for company.
A sensitive artist, who lacks even the simple courage to buy his own toilet paper, this research into all the most notorious hackers and poisoners of the late 19th century has made him paranoid and insomniac. Jack starts carrying a carving knife around with him due to an irrational fear of being murdered and begins to suspect everybody he meets, from the waiter in the restaurant, to the newspaper vendor, to the friendly local ASBO hoodies. But when Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst fears; among them, love, laundry, and, serial killers.
Its because of his agents unprecedented request that he look smart for the big meeting, that Jacks career now rests precariously on his ability to tackle his irrational fear of launderettes. However, Jack soon has to deal with far more than the simple embarrassment of exposing his own soiled load in public. Harangued by the ghost of his ex-wife, and guided by the sage-like counsel of his psychotherapist (who once cured a girl of her phobia of open bananas), Jack makes his fateful trip downtown, taking him through the shadowy dystopia of a modern Noir London and onto the bright neon lights of the Lotus Laundromat, where his inability to operate a washing machine, (and the unfortunate fact that hes still carrying a carving knife), triggers a series of unexpected events bringing him face to face with real danger, real crime, real fear, and even reality TV; involving an encounter with the most beautiful girl in London, a highly embarrassing personal injury, a bruising encounter with the strong arm of the law, and ultimately an unexpected fight for his life at the hands of a real serial killer
