Gerald McMorrow’s dystopian and dark “Franklyn” stars Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley and Bernard Hill, but is there something terribly wrong with it? As Jeffrey Wells says, ” ‘Franklyn’ was a possible Cannes ’08 entry, but nope. Then I was thought it might turn up at last September’s Toronto Film Festival…sorry. Then I thought it might appear at Sundance ’09….no-go. And now it’s opening in the U.K. next month with no U.S. release date in sight. Face it — there must be something wrong with it.” Could be, it’s been purportedly finished for months. It’s never a good sign when a film sits on the shelves for months. Here’s the synopsis and then the trailer. More on the film in our Escapist Entertainment 2009 piece coming later today.
Franklyn is set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic metropolis of Meanwhile City, and weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.