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Credit: © Ben Wheatley

“We didn’t want it to look like the greatest hits of the 70s, but we didn’t want it to feel alien,” Ben Wheatley tells Neil McGlone in the April 2016 issue of Sight & Sound, discussing the visual design of his and Amy Jump’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s dystopic satire High-Rise. “I wanted to take those bits of the futuristic 70s and the kitsch stuff and make an alternate version of it.”

One of the first things Wheatley did after reading Amy Jump’s script was to imagine the film in 700 drawings. Here, in an exclusive visual tour behind the scenes of the film, is a selection of Wheatley’s watercolours alongside a number of photographs showing the production in progress.





Credit: © Ben Wheatley



Credit: Photography by Aidan Monaghan

Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley



Credit: Photography by Aidan Monaghan

Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley



Credit: Photography by Aidan Monaghan

Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley



Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley

Credit: © Ben Wheatley