UK director George Amponsah’s thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (LFF) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation.
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EXCLUSIVE: Following the massive success of his Netflix series One Piece, Taz Skylar has found his next big project as he is set to co-star opposite Daisy Ridley in Cleaner. Martin Campbell is directing. The film will shoot at the top of 2024 and falls under the British Equity act allowing it to shoot during the current SAG strike.
The timely action-thriller, set in present-day London, will see radical activists take over an energy company’s annual gala at the Shard – the tallest skyscraper in Western Europe – seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, Joey Locke (Daisy Ridley) – suspended 90 stories up on the outside of the building – to save those trapped inside and take down the killers, whilst also finding a way to bring the corrupt energy moguls to justice.
Pic is being financed and produced by Greenland outfit Anton with Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant as producers.
Skylar stars at Sanji in the hit Netflix series, One Piece. He will soon be seen in the feature film Gassed Up that he wrote and stars in, which is having it’s World Premiere at the London Film Festival this week. He also performed in Hamlet at the Young Vic with Cush Jumbo and was in the BAFTA Nominated feature Boiling Point, which also premiered at London Film Festival and starred Stephen Graham and has now been adapted in to a limited series for BBC.
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UK director George Amponsah’s thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (LFF) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation.
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