‘King Baby’ Directorial Duo Kit & Arran Talk ‘Mischievous’ Sense of Humor, Upcoming ‘How Dare You,’ ‘Jericho’ (EXCLUSIVE)
15.01.2024 - 17:33
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga Directorial duo Kit & Arran, whose darkly comedic satire “King Baby” premieres at International Film Festival Rotterdam, are lining up two further film projects, “How Dare You” and “Jericho,” the directors, whose full names are Kit Redstone and Arran Shearing, tell Variety. Selected for the Bright Future section and initially developed as a play, “King Baby” sees a King and a Servant (Graham Dickson and Neil Chinneck) living alone in the ruins of a castle. When their daily routine is disturbed by a Queen, they start succumbing to their worst instincts.
Even though she is a wooden mannequin. The Right Ones is handling sales. Variety debuts the trailer here: The film was produced by Franck Priot, Ye Shu, the directors and Marc Petey for Ghosts City and Chimples Pictures.
“We felt there was something deliciously promising about this stripped-down world,” says Kit. But despite its comedic set-up, “King Baby” quickly turns more disturbing, exploring “different nuances of patriarchal brutality.” “At first, we wanted to disarm our audience. Make them feel this was an eccentric, absurdist British comedy and play off this troupe of loveable buffoons.
Later, you realize you are somehow complicit in allowing them to behave badly,” he notes. “In the King, we see something familiar: this all-powerful brute who always gets what he wants. The Servant is an offer of hope that something beautiful could happen.
But when we look at world politics, we see ‘fascist monsters’ on the right and then people on the left who present a more palatable alternative, but at heart are exactly the same.” “Tonally, the film doesn’t seem to change. The jokes are the same, the men are the same. It’s the realization of the implications of their
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