Interview: Filmmaker Ben Wheatley on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with UK filmmaker Ben Wheatley, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Come And See’s impact, Blade Runner analysis, and Star Wars’ influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Ben Wheatley also discusses his new film Bulk.

• Come And See – Ben Wheatley says Come And See is a DVD he bought because it was suggested as the greatest war movie ever made. It sat on his shelf for five or six years until one night at 11pm when he wondered what’s it like and he’ll just watch a bit of it. At 2am when he’d finished he was like JESUS!
• Blade Runner – Ben Wheatley shares how he came across Blade Runner as a kid as the two-part Marvel comic book adaptation and probably only part two it. He was too young to go and see it and would eventually watch it on VHS – the original version with the voiceover. Then he read the book and he’s still a big Philip K Dick fan. And then over time he has watched it on every format he has found it on.
• Star Wars – Ben Wheatley talks about seeing Star Wars in the cinema in 1978.