People are very scared of saying stuff like that because it sounds elaborate and pretentious, but that surely what a writer needs to do, is to look at what’s real. I think people started to talk about it for what it is and what it is, is an existentialist film, deliberately. Of course you get the howls of outrage which is great, but it’s been interesting in the last 24 hours even, maybe social media has started to kick in, but the reviews are starting to get good which is quite alarming. Could you make that into a film? With this, I wanted to take a story and disrupt it entirely and see what happens. So with Locke I wanted to take a character who no-one would have an interest in, with an event that wouldn’t even make the local paper, and have him, just one person, driving on a motorway. The three act structure, the character arc, as if those rules are actually what a film is, but they’re not, it’s just one way of doing it. And see how that develops.Īs you say, I’ve done a lot of stuff, and I’m always struck by how, particularly the film industry, attracts rules. Get that car on the road and then smash it into a tree and watch one wheel go down the road. But everyone went in with their eyes open and knew what it was, and my intentional was always to create a conventional film that is even a little bit heightened, and then pull everything out. Then after that, it was relatively smooth. But, Matthew was in quite early, as was Anne, and that really helped, obviously. Especially one that is this far out and deliberately trying to subvert what is expected. It’s never easy to get a film that isn’t about bats and spiders made, you know. Steven KnightĪfter years in the industry, having garnered much pedigree in film and TV, was it still a challenge to get Serenity off the ground? Because it’s unique, and I’ve not quite seen anything like it.
But the writer – also known for the likes of Dirty Pretty Things and Peaky Blinders – has outdone himself with Serenity, starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. It’s not the first time even Knight has presented a film that is unlike anything else, having been behind the excellent Locke, starring Tom Hardy. An absurdist, erotic, fishing film noir, it’s fair to say the film is rather unique, and when we sat down with the writer/director Steven Knight, he explains how why he felt so compelled to create something so unconventional. We’ve never seen anything quite like Serenity.
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