Ben Wheatley is not a man to rest on his laurels, even when they're as full and bushy as they are for his terrific black comedy,** Sightseers**. The Brighton-based filmmaker already has his next film, A Field In England, in the can after a two-week shoot in Surrey last month. It's got a new poster which you can see below.
Co-written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, **A Field In England **it set in the aftermath of a English Civil War battle. A posse of deserters are escaping the carnage when they're seized by a treasure-hunting alchemist and compelled to help him hunt for gold. Unfortunately, the motley crew have a culinary encounter with a crop of magic mushrooms and everything turns seriously **Dumbo **on them.
Plunged into all this paranoia and mayhem are Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith and Wheatley's old Kill Lister Michael Smiley. Shot in black-and-white, and, according to the director, likely to be firmly 18-rated, **A Field In England **will be in our cinemas in 2013 (or MMXIII, for Latin speakers).