Alice Lowe’s second film as director is time travel comedy Timestalker, which will be released in the UK on the 27th September.
Alice Lowe is not only a brilliant actor, she has been behind the camera on some of the most esoteric, original British films of the last few years, from co-writing the screenplay of Sightseers with co-star Steve Oram, which was directed by Ben Wheatley and released in 2012, to her terrific 2016 directorial debut Prevenge, which she also wrote and starred as a pregnant woman who believes her unborn baby is telling her to murder all the men involved in her husband’s death.
Her next film is even more ambitious. Timestalker is a science fiction comedy, the synopsis reads as follows:
From the creative team behind PREVENGE comes… TIMESTALKER, a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love, spanning the most romantic epochs of history right into the future.TIMESTALKER follows hapless heroine Agnes (Alice Lowe) through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, gets reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. It is one story told over many periods, all with the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow your heart. Or maybe your loins…
Agnes’ only hope in avoiding this violent fate is by finally reaching spiritual enlightenment; but how can she ever wise up when she’s destined to be a fool for love? Some lessons are just too hard to learn in one lifetime.
Lowe also stars in the film, alongside Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds and Nick Frost.
According to Screen Daily, Vertigo Releasing has picked up the UK and Ireland rights to the film, which will be released on the 27th September.
We’ll bring you the poster and trailer when they are released.
