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EPISODE · Mar 27, 2017 · 20 MIN

#4: Ben Wheatley

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What’s it like going from a budget of £6,000 to £6 million? Brit director Ben Wheatley discusses his rise to new single-location action film Free Fire, how it was influenced by video game Counter-Strike, working with Martin Scorsese and a new film about women with shotguns killing giant crabs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What’s it like going from a budget of £6,000 to £6 million? Brit director Ben Wheatley discusses his rise to new single-location action film Free Fire, how it was influenced by video game Counter-Strike, working with Martin Scorsese and a new film about women with shotguns killing giant crabs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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