Sherwood Schwartz's 1963 sitcom "Gilligan's Island" was a high-concept series that, thanks to the gods of syndication, remained in the public consciousness for decades after it went off the air. The show's impeccable theme song, written by Schwartz and George Wyle, may be the best theme in television history, as it handily explains the premise using a hummable sea shanty: five tourists boarded the S.S. Minnow -- manned by Captain Jonas Grumby (Alan Hale) and his first mate Gilligan (Bob Denver) -- for a three-hour tour off the coast of Honolulu. When the tiny ship hit some bad weather, the seven characters landed on a desert island, stranded. The series followed their merry attempts to survive.
"Gilligan's Island" ran for 98 episodes, ending its initial run in 1967, but reruns continued to air well into the 1990s. Yes, there was a time when "Gilligan's Island" was a reliable TV staple, occupying...
"Gilligan's Island" ran for 98 episodes, ending its initial run in 1967, but reruns continued to air well into the 1990s. Yes, there was a time when "Gilligan's Island" was a reliable TV staple, occupying...
- 2/8/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
BenedictionThe lineup has been unveiled for the 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, which will take place over 10 days (September 9-18) both in-person and physically in Toronto, and digitally across Canada. Wavelengths - FEATURESFutura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher)The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher)Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman)A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette)The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes)Wavelengths - SHORTSThe Capacity for Adequate Anger (Vika Kirchenbauer)Dear Chantal (Querida Chantal) (Nicolás Pereda)earthearthearth (Daïchi Saïto)Inner Outer Space (Laida Lertxundi)Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)“The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim)Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)Midnight Madness After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (Bertrand Mandico)Dashcam (Rob Savage)Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot)Titane (Julia Ducournau)You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan)Zalava (Arsalan Amiri)TIFF DOCSAttica (Stanley Nelson)Beba (Rebeca Huntt)Becoming Cousteau...
- 8/4/2021
- MUBI
The Zac Efron survival thriller “Gold” has sold to Screen Media following a competitive bidding situation that saw several studios and distributors circling the project.
The film co-stars Anthony Hayes who co-wrote the script in addition to directing the picture. Susie Porter rounds out the cast.
“Gold” centers on two men who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found while traveling through a remote desert. They hatch a plan to protect and excavate the gold, a scheme that requires one man to leave to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery… at all costs. “Gold” was filmed in South Australia late last year and is currently in post-production.
“It is always every filmmaker’s dream to make a film and snag a large North American release for their film and a bidding war is even more rare,” said Hayes. “It is a testament to our...
The film co-stars Anthony Hayes who co-wrote the script in addition to directing the picture. Susie Porter rounds out the cast.
“Gold” centers on two men who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found while traveling through a remote desert. They hatch a plan to protect and excavate the gold, a scheme that requires one man to leave to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery… at all costs. “Gold” was filmed in South Australia late last year and is currently in post-production.
“It is always every filmmaker’s dream to make a film and snag a large North American release for their film and a bidding war is even more rare,” said Hayes. “It is a testament to our...
- 6/7/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of the UK premiere of Two Heads Creek, a playfully dark cannibal horror comedy, director Jesse O’Brien talks about the joys of cannibal karaoke, tackling immigration issues and filming in a haunted hotel.
How did Jordan Waller’s Two Heads Creek script end up in your hands and did you see it as more a family comedy than a cannibal gore-fest?
Producer Judd Tilyard and I were developing one of my own scripts, Inherit the Earth, which we thought would take a while to finance – and during that process he asked if I’d like to take a look at another script, which was then called Flesh and Blood. I read it with a sense of hesitation. Did I want my second film to be a cannibal horror comedy set in the outback? But from page one, Jordan Waller’s writing really leaped off the page. I knew immediately...
How did Jordan Waller’s Two Heads Creek script end up in your hands and did you see it as more a family comedy than a cannibal gore-fest?
Producer Judd Tilyard and I were developing one of my own scripts, Inherit the Earth, which we thought would take a while to finance – and during that process he asked if I’d like to take a look at another script, which was then called Flesh and Blood. I read it with a sense of hesitation. Did I want my second film to be a cannibal horror comedy set in the outback? But from page one, Jordan Waller’s writing really leaped off the page. I knew immediately...
- 8/18/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Filmmakers/authors discuss the movies they wish more people were familiar with.
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Top Gun (1986)
Water Power (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)
In Fabric (2018)
A Climax of Blue Power (1974)
Forced Entry (1975)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Nashville Girl (1976)
Ms .45 (1981)
Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Design For Living (1933)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Melody (1971)
Oliver! (1968)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Stardust (1974)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Bellboy (1960)
Which Way To The Front? (1970)
Hardly Working (1980)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Duck Soup (1933)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
The Second Civil War (1997)
I, A Woman (1965)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
The...
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Top Gun (1986)
Water Power (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)
In Fabric (2018)
A Climax of Blue Power (1974)
Forced Entry (1975)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Nashville Girl (1976)
Ms .45 (1981)
Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Design For Living (1933)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Melody (1971)
Oliver! (1968)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
That’ll Be The Day (1973)
Stardust (1974)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Bellboy (1960)
Which Way To The Front? (1970)
Hardly Working (1980)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Duck Soup (1933)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
The Second Civil War (1997)
I, A Woman (1965)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
The...
- 3/3/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
To celebrate the first look at Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue’s new 70s-style comedy, here are some of the raunchy romps that made it possible
The first trailer for the writer/director Stephan Elliott’s new film Swinging Safari (formerly titled Flammable Children) hit the net this week, reuniting Neighbours alumni Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue. Even by Elliott’s standards (his best-known films are Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop) it is completely batshit crazy, depicting a view of the 70s rife with booze, sun, surf and sex.
The “swinging” in the title refers to the non-dancing kind. There are visions of kink aplenty, positioning the film in a pantheon of raunchy Australian comedies and/or what-the-hell-were-they-thinking feats of cinematic impropriety. This type of film exploded in the 1970s and 80s, after the country’s pernicious censorship laws were relaxed a little and...
The first trailer for the writer/director Stephan Elliott’s new film Swinging Safari (formerly titled Flammable Children) hit the net this week, reuniting Neighbours alumni Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue. Even by Elliott’s standards (his best-known films are Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop) it is completely batshit crazy, depicting a view of the 70s rife with booze, sun, surf and sex.
The “swinging” in the title refers to the non-dancing kind. There are visions of kink aplenty, positioning the film in a pantheon of raunchy Australian comedies and/or what-the-hell-were-they-thinking feats of cinematic impropriety. This type of film exploded in the 1970s and 80s, after the country’s pernicious censorship laws were relaxed a little and...
- 11/8/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Formerly titled Flammable Children, the upcoming comedy from writer/director Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop) reunites Minogue with her former Neighbours co-star and takes a sepia-tinted look at 1970s Australia: the sun, the surf, the swimmers ... and the swinging. Filmed on the Gold Coast, and with more than a few traces of Puberty Blues, the coming-of-age film follows what happens to three neighbouring families on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac when an extraordinary event shakes up their lives. Swinging Safari's cast includes Asher Keddie, Julian McMahon, Radha Mitchell and Jeremy Sims, and will be released on 18 January 2018
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- 11/6/2017
- The Guardian - Film News
Another pretty little TV show is officially happening!
Shay Mitchell took to Twitter on Friday to celebrate her new upcoming show, The Heiresses, which will reunite her with Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King as well as author Sara Shepard.
"Woop woop," the 30-year-old actress tweeted on Friday.
Watch: 'Pretty Little Liars' Spinoff Starring Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish is Happening!
Ashley Benson, Mitchell's Pll co-star and close friend, replied to the tweet to congratulate her on the new project.
"Yeaaaaa gorllllll," she shared.
King also responded, echoing her love for the Pll cast.
"Pll family forever," she wrote. "Thanks for the love Ash."
King is also working with Freeform to create a Pretty Little Liars spinoff, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Both Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish are set to reprise their roles as Alison and Mona, respectively.
Hear more on the upcoming series in the video below.
Shay Mitchell took to Twitter on Friday to celebrate her new upcoming show, The Heiresses, which will reunite her with Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King as well as author Sara Shepard.
"Woop woop," the 30-year-old actress tweeted on Friday.
Watch: 'Pretty Little Liars' Spinoff Starring Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish is Happening!
Ashley Benson, Mitchell's Pll co-star and close friend, replied to the tweet to congratulate her on the new project.
"Yeaaaaa gorllllll," she shared.
King also responded, echoing her love for the Pll cast.
"Pll family forever," she wrote. "Thanks for the love Ash."
King is also working with Freeform to create a Pretty Little Liars spinoff, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Both Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish are set to reprise their roles as Alison and Mona, respectively.
Hear more on the upcoming series in the video below.
- 10/1/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Red deserts, sweaty brows, scalding sand and swimsuits. Nowhere does summer quite like Australia – and nowhere is it captured better than on film. But how well do you know your classics?
They’re A Weird Mob
Puberty Blues
Age of Consent
The Daughter
These Final Hours
On the Beach
Blackrock
All Men Are Liars
The Overlanders
The Sundowners
The Back of Beyond
Mutiny on the Bounty
Welcome to Woop Woop
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Muriel’s Wedding
Red Dog
Road Games
Fair Game
Long Weekend
Dead Calm
The Killing of Angel Street
Newsfront
Heatwave
The Year of Living Dangerously
Wake in Fright
Sunday Too Far Away
The Water Diviner
The Man From Snowy River
The Man From Snowy River
The Water Diviner
Australia
The Silver Brumby
Goldstone
Dead Heart
Babe: Pig in the City
Mystery Road
Bungala Boys
Bra Boys
The Coolangatta Gold
The Four Minute Mile
Crocodile Dundee...
They’re A Weird Mob
Puberty Blues
Age of Consent
The Daughter
These Final Hours
On the Beach
Blackrock
All Men Are Liars
The Overlanders
The Sundowners
The Back of Beyond
Mutiny on the Bounty
Welcome to Woop Woop
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Muriel’s Wedding
Red Dog
Road Games
Fair Game
Long Weekend
Dead Calm
The Killing of Angel Street
Newsfront
Heatwave
The Year of Living Dangerously
Wake in Fright
Sunday Too Far Away
The Water Diviner
The Man From Snowy River
The Man From Snowy River
The Water Diviner
Australia
The Silver Brumby
Goldstone
Dead Heart
Babe: Pig in the City
Mystery Road
Bungala Boys
Bra Boys
The Coolangatta Gold
The Four Minute Mile
Crocodile Dundee...
- 1/10/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio of a mild-mannered man who never leaves his tiny apartment is weird, warped and not easily forgotten
Australian cinemagoers tend to be wary of locally made films billed as “quirky”. There’s a general feeling we’ve had too many of them for too long, the best associated with a stretch in the 1990s when several doozies fell off the assembly line including The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding and Welcome to Woop Woop.
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio, Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites, is certainly quirky, but not the kind Australian cinema is accustomed to. It’s more like something in the realm of Being John Malkovich, the crazy mental wilderness of Charlie Kaufman swapped out for a slighter and more sedate kind of fantasy.
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Australian cinemagoers tend to be wary of locally made films billed as “quirky”. There’s a general feeling we’ve had too many of them for too long, the best associated with a stretch in the 1990s when several doozies fell off the assembly line including The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding and Welcome to Woop Woop.
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio, Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites, is certainly quirky, but not the kind Australian cinema is accustomed to. It’s more like something in the realm of Being John Malkovich, the crazy mental wilderness of Charlie Kaufman swapped out for a slighter and more sedate kind of fantasy.
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- 3/29/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Stephan Elliott and a Guy Pearce doppelganger.
Stephan Elliott's next film, Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell, will start pre-production in Queensland in mid-August and begin shooting in early October.
The film is being produced by Wildheart Films. Al Clark and See Pictures. Jamie Hilton.
"We are thrilled Stephan and the producers of Flammable Children have chosen Queensland to shoot their film and the opportunities that will be afforded to our world-class local creatives and crew", said Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira.
"This news is another major boost to our local industry and follows on from back-to-back domestic and international film and television productions"..
"Productions like Flammable Children create jobs, up-skill our local crew and creative base and create greater certainty to our local industry".
Elliott's film will shoot in South East Queensland, employ around 120 Queensland crew and spend more than $6 million on Queenslanders and Queensland businesses,...
Stephan Elliott's next film, Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell, will start pre-production in Queensland in mid-August and begin shooting in early October.
The film is being produced by Wildheart Films. Al Clark and See Pictures. Jamie Hilton.
"We are thrilled Stephan and the producers of Flammable Children have chosen Queensland to shoot their film and the opportunities that will be afforded to our world-class local creatives and crew", said Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira.
"This news is another major boost to our local industry and follows on from back-to-back domestic and international film and television productions"..
"Productions like Flammable Children create jobs, up-skill our local crew and creative base and create greater certainty to our local industry".
Elliott's film will shoot in South East Queensland, employ around 120 Queensland crew and spend more than $6 million on Queenslanders and Queensland businesses,...
- 2/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Stephan Elliott and a Guy Pearce doppelganger.
Stephan Elliott's next film, Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell, will start pre-production in Queensland in mid-August and begin shooting in early October.
The film is being produced by Wildheart Films. Al Clark and See Pictures. Jamie Hilton.
"We are thrilled Stephan and the producers of Flammable Children have chosen Queensland to shoot their film and the opportunities that will be afforded to our world-class local creatives and crew", said Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira.
"This news is another major boost to our local industry and follows on from back-to-back domestic and international film and television productions"..
"Productions like Flammable Children create jobs, up-skill our local crew and creative base and create greater certainty to our local industry".
Elliott's film will shoot in South East Queensland, employ around 120 Queensland crew and spend more than $6 million on Queenslanders and Queensland businesses,...
Stephan Elliott's next film, Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell, will start pre-production in Queensland in mid-August and begin shooting in early October.
The film is being produced by Wildheart Films. Al Clark and See Pictures. Jamie Hilton.
"We are thrilled Stephan and the producers of Flammable Children have chosen Queensland to shoot their film and the opportunities that will be afforded to our world-class local creatives and crew", said Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira.
"This news is another major boost to our local industry and follows on from back-to-back domestic and international film and television productions"..
"Productions like Flammable Children create jobs, up-skill our local crew and creative base and create greater certainty to our local industry".
Elliott's film will shoot in South East Queensland, employ around 120 Queensland crew and spend more than $6 million on Queenslanders and Queensland businesses,...
- 2/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sydney-born Australian actor Rod Taylor, best known as the star of George Pal's original film adaptation of "The Time Machine" and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," died Wednesday of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Taylor made his feature debut in 'Time,' the 1960 screen version of H.G. Wells' classic. He followed that up voicing the lead dog in Disney's "101 Dalmatians" and delivered a strong performance in "The Birds".
Yet his career never really soared as high after those early successes, even though he kept working in various films such as "Sunday in New York ," "36 Hours," "Young Cassidy," "The Liquidator," "The Glass Bottom Boat," "Hotel," "Dark of the Sun," "Nobody Runs Forever," "Darker Than Amber," "The Train Robbers," "Bearcats!," "The Oregon Trail," "Masquerade," "Outlaws," "Falcon Crest," and "Welcome to Woop Woop".
His last role was that of Winston Churchill in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
Source:...
Taylor made his feature debut in 'Time,' the 1960 screen version of H.G. Wells' classic. He followed that up voicing the lead dog in Disney's "101 Dalmatians" and delivered a strong performance in "The Birds".
Yet his career never really soared as high after those early successes, even though he kept working in various films such as "Sunday in New York ," "36 Hours," "Young Cassidy," "The Liquidator," "The Glass Bottom Boat," "Hotel," "Dark of the Sun," "Nobody Runs Forever," "Darker Than Amber," "The Train Robbers," "Bearcats!," "The Oregon Trail," "Masquerade," "Outlaws," "Falcon Crest," and "Welcome to Woop Woop".
His last role was that of Winston Churchill in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
Source:...
- 1/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Robin Clifton.
Robin Clifton, one of Australia.s most respected and successful location managers, died last Friday after a long illness. She was 71.
Born in New Zealand, Clifton worked as location manager on dozens of films and TV dramas in Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands and China.
Clifton entered the industry in the early 1980s, working initially on TVCs. Her first feature was Bliss (1985), produced by Tony Buckley and directed by Ray Lawrence. She later collaborated with Buckley on Poor Man.s Orange (1987), the miniseries adapted from a Ruth Park novel, and the telemovie Heroes. Mountain (2002), the saga of Stuart Driver, who survived the 1997 Thredbo tragedy.
.Robin knew how to read a script from a director's point of view,. Buckley tells If. .No mean feat. A true professional with class. She is going to be very sadly missed..
Buckley hailed her as a .location manager par excellence. Difficult location?...
Robin Clifton, one of Australia.s most respected and successful location managers, died last Friday after a long illness. She was 71.
Born in New Zealand, Clifton worked as location manager on dozens of films and TV dramas in Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands and China.
Clifton entered the industry in the early 1980s, working initially on TVCs. Her first feature was Bliss (1985), produced by Tony Buckley and directed by Ray Lawrence. She later collaborated with Buckley on Poor Man.s Orange (1987), the miniseries adapted from a Ruth Park novel, and the telemovie Heroes. Mountain (2002), the saga of Stuart Driver, who survived the 1997 Thredbo tragedy.
.Robin knew how to read a script from a director's point of view,. Buckley tells If. .No mean feat. A true professional with class. She is going to be very sadly missed..
Buckley hailed her as a .location manager par excellence. Difficult location?...
- 11/2/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian director Stephan Elliott (Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Welcome to Woop Woop; Easy Virtue) is set to direct a new comedy, A Few Best Men, which follows a groom and his three best men who travel to the Australian outback for a wedding. While the details of the narrative are under wraps, the film sounds like it's tracing similar territory to The Hangover, Todd Phillips's smash hit about three groomsmen who lose their soon-to-be-wed best friend during a series of drunken misadventures in Las Vegas. According to sources close to Filmink, the comedy will feature rising local star Xavier Samuel as the British groom.
- 12/9/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
Aussie moviemaker Stephan Elliott credits a back-breaking skiing accident for reviving his love of directing after the critical mauling of his The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert follow-up sent him scurrying from film sets.
The filmmaker was famously booed and ridiculed when his Welcome To Woop Woop debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 1990s and the humiliating experience led him to give up his career as a director and stick to writing.
But three years spent recovering from his skiing accident gave Elliott the chance to reconsider his decision - and when he was presented with the chance to adapt Noel Coward's Easy Virtue for the big screen and step back into the director's chair, he didn't hesitate.
He says, "I broke my back, pelvis and legs, which kept me off my feet for the best part of my feet for the best part of three years, and I had a lot of time to think.
"I was apparently given just 20 minutes to live after the accident and that sort of thing really does make you take a look at your life and reprioritise.
"I had previously decided I had had enough of the film industry and the accident gave me the kick-on I needed. It made me realise the movie business isn't all that bad."
But freezing winter temperatures in rural England, where much of Easy Virtue was shot, played havoc with Elliott's back.
He tells WENN, "I was not a happy camper. It was so cold, like minus 15, and by then I couldn't sit for very long. The cold really got to me. I was only comfortable when I was moving or laying down.
"It made me quite bad tempered. We were trying to film one scene, set in the 1920s, and the helicopter that had come to take (actor) Colin Firth to his next job arrived early and the pilot decided to circle the set for an hour and a half. It was madness. I lost it and started throwing chairs up into the air - trying to hit the helicopter.
"I eventually screamed at Colin, 'Call your producers and tell them to get this f**king helicopter away from my set.'"...
The filmmaker was famously booed and ridiculed when his Welcome To Woop Woop debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 1990s and the humiliating experience led him to give up his career as a director and stick to writing.
But three years spent recovering from his skiing accident gave Elliott the chance to reconsider his decision - and when he was presented with the chance to adapt Noel Coward's Easy Virtue for the big screen and step back into the director's chair, he didn't hesitate.
He says, "I broke my back, pelvis and legs, which kept me off my feet for the best part of my feet for the best part of three years, and I had a lot of time to think.
"I was apparently given just 20 minutes to live after the accident and that sort of thing really does make you take a look at your life and reprioritise.
"I had previously decided I had had enough of the film industry and the accident gave me the kick-on I needed. It made me realise the movie business isn't all that bad."
But freezing winter temperatures in rural England, where much of Easy Virtue was shot, played havoc with Elliott's back.
He tells WENN, "I was not a happy camper. It was so cold, like minus 15, and by then I couldn't sit for very long. The cold really got to me. I was only comfortable when I was moving or laying down.
"It made me quite bad tempered. We were trying to film one scene, set in the 1920s, and the helicopter that had come to take (actor) Colin Firth to his next job arrived early and the pilot decided to circle the set for an hour and a half. It was madness. I lost it and started throwing chairs up into the air - trying to hit the helicopter.
"I eventually screamed at Colin, 'Call your producers and tell them to get this f**king helicopter away from my set.'"...
- 5/8/2009
- WENN
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