Killer comedy is perfectly pitched
SIGHTSEERS almost didn’t get made. But the film, by Ben Wheatley — director of last year’s acclaimed British occult thriller, Kill List — was one of the hits of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Sightseers was conceived as a television show by its lead actors and writers, Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, but its story of a killing spree undertaken by campers Chris and Tina was rejected for being “too dark.” When director Edgar Wright saw the potential in the project, he passed it on to Shaun of The Dead producer, Nira Park, who optioned it. That rejection by television was the best thing for Oram and Lowe.
