Ella Purnell as MacKenzie starring off into the distance in Wildlike
The Big Picture Actor Ella Purnell broke out with a supporting role in Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and experienced further success with the recent Prime Video hit Fallout. But her continued success in the mainstream doesn’t mean that she no longer wants to dabble in the indie space. At the FanExpo Chicago, Purnell spoke to Collider’s Steve Weintraub about an upcoming film of hers that might "ruin" her career.
Purnell proceeded to tease the film in perhaps the best way that she could’ve. She said that she has “no idea” how it’s going to turn out, and revealed that Roberts is actively seeking to subvert expectations. While everybody, including Purnell, thought that The Scurry was going to be like the cult British horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead, Roberts plans on making something that’s more in line with the divisive metaphysical dark comedy Beau is Afraid.
“I love Craig Roberts. I think he’s insanely talented. If you don’t know him, you should get to know his work. He’s a weird guy. And reads kind of like Shaun of the Dead, but it’s not. He was like, ‘I know everybody wants it to be like Shaun of the Dead, but I’m going to make it Beau is Afraid’. And I was like, ‘But it’s about killer squirrels’. Somehow, he did it. Look, I have no idea how this film’s going to turn out.
Roberts Is Going to Stamp 'The Scurry' with His Unique Sensibilities Roberts broke onto the scene first as an actor, in the coming-of-age comedy-drama Submarine. He made his directorial debut with the black comedy Just Jim, in which he starred alongside Emile Hirsch. He followed it up with the 2019 film Eternal Beauty, starring Sally Hawkins and David Thewlis, and most recently directed The Phantom of the Open, starring Mark Rylance.
Shaun of the Dead is a generation-defining film that launched not only Edgar Wright’s career but also introduced the world to the talents of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It’s gory, hilarious, and endlessly rewatchable; in other words, it's not at all like Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a nervous wreck who goes on a surreal odyssey to attend his mother’s funeral.
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