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Lost in London: Woody Harrelson will make a film that will be broadcast live in cinemas

Woody Harrelson - Lost in London

Actor Woody Harrelson will do something that no one has done before him. He will make a film that will be broadcast live in more than 500 cinemas. The film Lost in London is based on one of the worst episodes of his life. A broken ashtray in the back seat of a London taxi 15 years ago set off an avalanche of events that eventually led to him spending the night in jail. He didn't think the whole thing was funny at the time, but today he thinks it's a good basis for a comedy in which Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson, among others, will join him. The film will be shot in one frame.

Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Masters of Illusion, Born to Kill, The Hunger Games) will January 19, 2017 went down in film history as the first to make a film that will broadcast live in more than 550 cinemas in Great Britain. As he promised, he will in case of failure of the film Lost in London (Lost in London) jumped into the River Thames. He will direct the film, wrote the screenplay for it and will also play the lead role in it. As said, based on one of the worst nights of his life, which happened in London 15 years ago. Then he is in the back seat of a London taxi accidentally broke the ashtray, which set off an avalanche of events that led to the later landed in prison. At the time, he didn't think the whole thing was funny at all, but today he took this incident as an angle basis for comedy, which should last 100 minutes. Nothing more is known about the content.

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Woody Harrelson is preparing for an unusual feat.
Woody Harrelson is preparing for an unusual feat.

In an unusual project that he had been 'dreaming' of for ten years - it will be filmed with a single camera in continuous footage – they will join him Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson. In the film, which will take place in 14 different locations, they will otherwise star together 30 players. "No one has ever shot a film and broadcast it live in a cinema at the same time. No one has ever been so stupid. Until now…” he says in a joking tone in the trailer for Lost in London, which he shot on Waterloo Bridge in London 55 year old actor. And where did the idea of continuous recording and live streaming come from? I love theater and film. I really wanted to find a way to combine these two passions. Then it hit me... Because we're going to play everything in one long sequence, so we're going to play the whole movie at once, that's similar to a theater. But in order for it to be really similar to him, the audience was missing. And that's how I got the idea of live streaming. It might be impossible, but we'll try anyway.

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