Ben Wheatley's SIGHTSEERS Is Under Way

Director Ben Wheatley is a busy man. Following on the success of Kill List, Wheatley has a number of projects lined up for the next couple years, the first of which - dark comedy Sightseers - is now well into principal photography.

Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through this sceptred isle in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life.

But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge...

From a script by stars Steve Oram and Alice Lowe - fixtures on the UK comedy scene - production began October third and is scheduled to run four weeks. Expect more soon ...