Last Passenger

Last Passenger (2013)

Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.

Data di uscita
2013-10-18
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (175)
Durata
1 h 36 min
Generi
Azione, Thriller, Mistero
Regista
Omid Nooshin

Cast

Curiosità

Last Passenger is a 2013 British suspense thriller film directed by Omid Nooshin. Starring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon and Iddo Goldberg, this film follows the man; a doctor and a widower, and their commuters' efforts to stop the train after it was discovered to have been hijacked by an unknown, mysterious driver.

Production

In an interview about the film in the March 2013 issue of Vérité Magazine, Omid Nooshin said "There's a mythic resonance, being trapped in the Belly of the Whale, but there's also an existential dimension, hurtling towards the end of the line, towards certain death. I'm drawn to the work of anthropologist Ernest Becker who posited that mortality buffering actions constituted a kind of science of human behaviour."

After receiving development backing from the UK Film Council, the script was voted onto the 2008 Brit List, an industry compiled ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK. However, taking the film into production required a "heroic effort" according to executive producer Kwesi Dickson.

Along with the £500 trailer, another key element which attracted distributors was the attachment of Dougray Scott to the lead role. Scott said of the script "It reminded me of a Hitchcock thriller where Hitchcock used to invest in the characters, so whatever happened in the story, you really cared about them because he’d spent the time for you, the audience, to get to know them." Part of Scott's character research involved training in CPR at a ho…

After realising that his preferred option of filming on 35mm wasn't affordable, Nooshin wanted to achieve the most cinematic look possible using digital cameras, and the Arri Alexa soon become his preferred choice. At this time the 4x3 Alexa had not been released, meaning Last Passenger would have to be shot at x2 anamorphic lenses on a 16x9 sensor.

Director of Photography Angus Hudson and Nooshin opted for the Cooke Xtal Express range of anamorphic lenses, originally spherical lenses from the 1930s that had been re-housed and modified with anamorphic elements in the 1980s.

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