Irvine Ecstasy 2011

The project has been in development for more than a decade, with financing coming and going before it was finally locked into place, with Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Adam Sinclair, Colin Mochrie and Dean McDermott coming on board to star. “ Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy” follows Heather (Kreuk) and Lloyd (Sinclair) as they explore a chemical romance and discover whether their love for one another is real or not. Surrounding the story is a thriller that dives into the politics and lifestyles of the clubbers and gangsters, along with the good and the evil that comes with their world. The Playlist is premiering the brand new trailer for the film which you can see below, and we recently caught up with director Rob Heydon and author Irvine Welsh to talk about the project. Welsh fans are probably already aware that “Ecstasy” was previously adapted into a stage play by Canadian playwright Keith Wyatt.

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While the initial plan was to use that work as a the foundation for the film, Heydon reveals they soon went back to the source. “So we want back to the book and went through fifty drafts of the script at least to really figure out what works and what doesn’t work,” the director said. “And then we had to mine the book for the subtext. And the book is boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-back all in the last five pages. And other than that, it’s alternating chapters of their lives and how they’re destined to meet one day, so that doesn’t really work for a film. So we had to change the structure quite a bit and add the gangster element.”“We gave Lloyd’s character arc a bit more of a through line and a motivation for why this character wants to change his life,” Heydon explained about the changes from the page to screen. “That club/drug lifestyle is not sustainable in the long term.

Heather brings a motivation to change, but also confronts him about why he’s still doing this in his mid-30s. Why he’s still partying like he’s 16.”. But at the end of the day, the story is less about drugs and more about the broader picture of their effect on relationships and even the perception of life. “It’s a transformational love story going from the love of ecstasy of the drug to the ecstasy of love,” Heydon says. “A lot of people think it’s ‘Oh, it’s Irvine Welsh, it’s going to be about drugs’ and that’s it, and sort of write it off at face value.

It’s really about different states of modality and what is ecstasy and how do we get there and how do we live in a state of ecstasy every day.”As for Welsh, he didn’t mind having his work being tinkered with, as he believes he didn’t get “Ecstasy” quite the he way he wanted on the page. “It kind of turned out to be formally kind of a straighter book than i wanted it to be — it’s much more of a straight-down-the-line-story — and I wanted it to be a bit more trippy than that,” the author explained. “That was my disappointment in the book, it wasn’t realized quite the way I wanted it to.To me it was very much realized as a stage playto me it worked better on the stage than on the pageso I was excited about what would happen if it was given the cinematic treatment.”With Heydon’s background in music videos and knowledge of the club world, Welsh had no reservations that he was the man for the job. “I was excited when Rob came on and wanted to do it because he was kind of steeped in that culture,” he said adding, “If that sensibility could be married to the kind of storytelling that was in the book, it would kind of work in the way that I would wanted the book to work.”But still, it must be a little odd to hand your baby to someone else and Welsh gives an interesting description of what it was like to have his work developed into something brand new. “It’s brilliant, it’s just great. It’s kind of weirdit’s almost like you kind of discover you had this child in your teens that you didn’t know about and they come back and visit you, ” he said. “And you know they have something to do with you, but they totally had their own life experience and were growing in their own direction, you’ve had no influence or control over thatIt’s uplifting but a slightly kind of scary and disconcerting experience as well.”But for diehard admirers of the book, Heydon assures that not everything has been touched.

“We kept all the best gems from the book. There is some amazing characters and dialogue and scenes in the book that we didn’t want to change at all because Irvine has such a distinct voice,” he says.Of course, no Welsh film is complete with out a great soundtrack and “Ecstasy” will have tunes from Coldplay, Primal Scream, Tiesto, Deadmau5, Bonjay, The Mahones, Hawksley Workman and more to keep things moving.

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Irvine Welsh S Ecstasy 2011 Full Movie

IRVINE WELSH'S ECSTASY (2011)Type FeatureApprox. Running minutes99Release datesRatings Info Contains very strong language, frequent drug use and strong sexGenre(s)DramaDirector(s) Rob HeydonCast includes Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Dean McDermott, Carlo Rota, Ashley Pover, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Olivia Andrup, Alex Lifeson, Colin Mochrie, Stephen McHattie, Natalie Brown, Chris Smits, Stefan Hayes, Shawn Storer, Luke Gordon, Dominic CashmanCut All known versions of this work passed uncut. 18. ECSTASY is a film adaptation of the Irvine Welsh's novella about a frustrated young housewife who falls in love with an ecstasy dealer on the Edinburgh rave scene in the 1990s. The film was classified '18' for very strong language, frequent drug use and strong sex.The BBFC's Guidelines at '15' state 'There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, 'fuck').

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy (2011)

The strongest terms (for example, 'cunt') may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable'. The film includes frequent use of strong language and nine uses of very strong language, three of which are aggressive.

It was therefore more appropriately classified at '18'. The Guidelines at '15' also state 'Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail'. There is one sex scene, which features no strong detail. However, the protracted nature of the scene, combined with its focus on sexual mechanics and the fact the characters inhale 'poppers' to enhance the experience, mean it is more appropriately classified at '18'ECSTASY also features frequent drug use. The Guidelines at '15' state 'Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse'. Although the film does suggest the pleasures of drug use, it also makes clear that drug taking and involvement in drugs have a range of negative consequences. Additionally, the film contains some scenes of strong violence.