"At an
exclusive Time Out reunion event, one of the key men behind the counter-culture
classic reveals details of a long-awaited follow-up
It's
been 35 years since director Franc Roddam shot 'Quadrophenia' on the streets of
London and Brighton, creating a classic of British cinema adored by music and
film fans along the way. Inspired by the 1973 The Who album of the same name,
the film tells of Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a troubled west London mod in 1965 who
joins his mates for a dust-up with rockers one Bank Holiday weekend down in
Brighton.
Time Out
and the London Film School recently brought Roddam and some of his key
collaborators back together for a one-off reunion screening of the film at
South Kensington's Ciné Lumière. From the cast, singer-actress Toyah Wilcox and
actors Phil Davis ('Vera Drake', 'Whitechapel') and Mark Wingett ('The Bill')
all recalled the chaos and humour of filming the movie's fight scenes. Roddam
was also joined by the film's editor Sean Barton, co-writer Martin Stellman and
producer Bill Curbishley. You can watch the highlights of their discussion
here.
Curbishley
also revealed to Time Out that he's currently developing a script for a sequel
to 'Quadrophenia'.
'It
would be set in the 1970s,' Curbishley said, suggesting that we'd meet the lead
character, Jimmy, about ten years after the original story. So presumably that
means that 54-year-old Phil Daniels is now too old to play Jimmy again? 'Yes –
but he could play Jimmy's father,' laughed Curbishley.
Daniels
himself was conspicuous by his absence at the reunion event ('he never does
these things,' said one of his colleagues), so we couldn't check what he
thought of the idea. But we'll bring you more news of 'Quadrophenia 2' as and
when we have it."
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