Alice Lowe makes the horror comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Girls’ Guide
Exclusive: British multi-hyphenate comedian Alice Lowe has signed a two-picture deal with British production company Western Edge Pictures (WEP) after previously collaborating on Lowe’s feature directorial debut to forbid And 2024 is a comedy Time stalker.
Lowe, who also starred in and co-wrote the comedy Spectatorsis now preparing a horror version of Shakespeare’s classic play A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Goblinsa dark comedy horror film about a young girl who joins a girl guide group. The plan is to write, direct, and have a major — but not leading — role in both.
“I wanted to make a classic and it blew my mind,” Lowe told Deadline of the first, which the team hopes to make next summer. A Midsummer Night’s DreamWhich I know well, is always made the same way over and over again. It’s really funny. But also fae and fairies and blah blah. But I see no reason why it couldn’t be revisited with how terrifying and strange it is, and how very dark and strange the undercurrents are indeed.
WEP’s Vaughan Civil added: “The deep layer is amazing. It is A Midsummer Night’s DreamBut that’s pretty much Alice’s opinion of the matter. The best parts, all the comedy and magic, but in a completely original space and setting. He – she CTo be truly international in its style and aesthetic.
Louie said who Goblins: “The film is autobiographical in some ways. It’s set in the early 1980s, which is a period that fascinates me. It’s a period when things were changing rapidly and I think it marked the beginning of the individualism that today is the mainstay of our psyche and society as a whole. It was also a confusing time for me, because I was a real kid! But I also see it as a transition between trust in property, in authority, in the church, in religion, in society and into something more.” Formless and selfish. Kind of limiting. All you have to do is look at Jimmy Savile and how he slipped through the cracks to see how there was a shift in perception or culture.
She continued: “More than today, our parents would say one thing, do another. And it seems to me that this was a kind of betrayal of contracts in families. So there was still a rigidity of conduct and conformity. And trust in institutions. But with that, society began to abandon those rules. Abuse of institutions and abuse of those rules. And so, when I was a child, you could slip through those cracks. So it’s At its core it’s about fear of adults!”
Civil added: “We talked a lot about Alice directing a classic while having the freedom to do something really original – and in the end we decided to do both. Goblins is the best British idiosyncrasy that comedy and horror audiences around the world have come to love so much since Monty Python. We are now looking for the right partners for each of these films.