The Smoke (film)

The Smoke

UK release poster
Directed by Ben Pickering
Written by Darren Ripley
Starring Matt Di Angelo
Lili Bordán
Stephen Marcus
Music by Luke Corradine
Cinematography Bruce Melhuish
Edited by Steven Forrester
Ben Nugent
Production
company
Slate 4 Films
Distributed by Signature Entertainment
Release dates
  • 20 October 2014
Running time
 89 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Smoke, also known as Two Days in the Smoke (worldwide title outside UK/Ireland: London Payback), is an English crime thriller film starring Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus, Anna Passey and Alan Ford.

Lawyer Brad Walker (Matt Di Angelo) is having a very bad day. His girlfriend Sasha (Anna Passey) has run off with his best mate and he's been fired. While drowning his sorrows with an old friend, Brad overhears a conversation between two drug dealers. In a moment of madness Brad decides to steal thousands of pounds from their boss Jack (Alan Ford), a notorious gangster who will stop at nothing to get his money back.

Cast

Production

In April 2012, Screen Daily announced Matt Di Angelo, Alan Ford and Stephen Marcus had all signed on to appear in the film.[1]

Sections of the film were filmed at Tower Bridge, Covent Garden, St. Pancras Railway Station, RAF Uxbridge, the Apex London Wall Hotel and Apex City of London Hotel, and the Pont Alexandre III bridge over the River Seine in Paris, France.[2]

The budget for the film was over £500,000 and the film was the first to be funded using the UK Government's Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, launched while the film was mid-production.

The soundtrack features songs from Grammy-nominated En Vogue, Some Velvet Morning and an end title song by Lindsay Armaou (of Irish girlband B*Witched, who also stars in the film).

The film was picked up at Cannes in 2014 by UK distributor Signature Entertainment and renamed The Smoke. Their linear studio cut of the film was released in the UK on 20 October 2014.[3]

The non-linear Director's cut, featuring 12 additional minutes of unseen footage including an opening monologue and the last known screen appearance of the late British actor Malcolm Tierney (best known for his roles in Star Wars and Braveheart, who died before the film was completed), is as yet unreleased.

References

  1. ↑ Wilcock, Jessica (2012-04-23). "Matt Di Angelo to star in Two Days in the Smoke". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Film: Two Days in the Smoke". shinesquad.me. 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  3. ↑ "Film: The Smoke". Signature Entertainment. 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2014-09-10.

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