11/16/09 (LONDON) Joel Meadows
SET VISIT
Last Monday, TRIPWIRE was lucky enough to be invited on set for new British vampire gangster film, Dead Cert. Shooting took place at a warehouse in Dagenham in Essex (the Eastern border of London for our non-English visitors.) While it is a film with a small budget (less than a million pounds), from what we saw it should look and feel like they spent a lot more on it.
The cast includes former EastEnders actors Craig Fairbrass and Billy Murray (who also happened to be one of the voices in the new Call of Duty video game), Andrew Tiernan (from ITV’s Cracker and more recently Murderland) plus cameos from Jason Flemyng (Benjamin Button) and Stephen Berkoff. With such a loaded cast the film should make more of an impact than your average low budget British movie.
Myself and Andy Colman spent all day on set, watching a couple of scenes being shot and we chatted to the main stars Fairbrass, Murray (who is also one of the producers on the film) and its director Steven Lawson. The nightclub set looked pretty impressive and this movie, which basically pits East End gangsters against vampires, should be an enjoyable experience when it hits cinemas next year.
Here’s a few shots I took while I was there…
