Submarine
Submarine is the hotly anticipated feature film debut from writer/director Richard Ayoade (‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’, ‘IT Crowd’).
An adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s novel, Submarine stars Noah Taylor (Shine, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), Paddy Considine (Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, ‘Red Riding’), newcomer Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige (‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’) and Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky, Made in Dagenham).
A Warp films production in association with Red Hour Films, Submarine is produced by Andy Stebbing (Kicks, Brick Lane) and Mark Herbert (This is England, Dead Man’s Shoes) with Mary Burke (Bunny and The Bull, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures).
Richard Ayoade is a Perrier Award winning writer and director. In 2004 Ayoade co-created and directed Channel 4’s spoof horror comedy series ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’, in which he also appeared.
This was followed with a sequel series ‘Man to Man with Dean Lerner’ which Richard directed and co-wrote and was broadcast on primetime Channel 4.
He has performed in ‘The Mighty Boosh’ and the Emmy Award Winning ‘IT Crowd’. After signing up with Warp Films to direct promos, Ayoade has made music videos for The Arctic Monkeys, Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, the Last Shadow Puppets and Vampire Weekend.
He also directed the feature-length concert film of the Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo which was released in 2008.
Submarine is a Warp Films production in association with Red Hour Films backed by Film4, the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, Wales Creative IP Fund and Film Agency Wales. Submarine will be released on 18 March 2011 through Optimum Releasing / Running time 97mins / Certificate TBC
Submarine played at the Toronto Film Festival, the London Film Festival and will be screening at Sundance.