Thanks to Gemma for calling my attention to Lena’s new project, which you can check out here:
Kill Drug — Welcome to the Family
From the website, here’s Lena’s message about the film:
“Welcome to ‘KILL DRUG‘
The ‘KILL DRUG‘ experience is one of dystopia, a relentless circus, an inescapable truth about humanity. The audience should question their moral judgment.
‘KILL DRUG‘ questions whether an underground movement, sizable enough to control, would fill the missing parts, give satisfaction, protection, reinstate forgotten ambition, goals, restore pride. ‘KILL DRUG‘ is about searching to belong, to find your place, a place where you can function in society, a longing for catharses and ultimately, peace
‘KILL DRUG‘ is smart, articulate, compelling, sexy, fun, dark, deeply poignant and not afraid to laugh at itself. Above all it is a gripping and compelling journey, a study of humanities darkest flaws and purest innocence.
Lena Headey.”
Empireonline.com also has this to say about Kill Drug:
“[It is] a dark thriller about an underground society dedicated to murdering society’s ingrates, nincompoops and scallywags.
The low-budget British thriller will star Headey as Sally, the daughter of Sue, a woman who murders her abusive husband in the 70s and then goes on to found a vigilante network in present-day London. When Sally is recruited into the gang, along with two men, she discovers that all is not as it seems, and that absolute power may have corrupted her mother absolutely.
“My ambition to direct has been fuelled over the last fifteen years, by working alongside great directors. It has also been my film education,” says Headey, who’s been attached to the project, formerly known as Retribution, for a while.
Jason Flemyng and Charlotte Rampling are also attached to the Tom Bacon-scripted movie, which will start shooting in January of next year. Plenty of time until then, so keep ‘em peeled for updates.”
We have to wait until at least the middle of 2010 to see the results… but way to go, Lena!!