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Fanny Lye Deliver'd is a British period drama film set in 1657 on a Shropshire farm. It stars Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, and Freddie Fox, and is written and directed by Thomas Clay. [1] [2] It premiered in October 2019 after more than three years in post production. [3]
- Where Did The Inspiration Come from For Fanny Lye Deliver’D?
- What Is It About This Time Period That Fascinated You?
- How Much Research Did You Do Before Writing The Film?
- How Long Did It Take You to Write The Film?
- What Challenges Did You Come Against When Directing A Period Film?
- Where Was The Movie Filmed?
- When Writing The Movie, Did You Have A Cast in Mind?
- What Genre Would You Say The Film Fits in to?
- What Were You Aiming to Convey Through Your Score?
- At What Part of The Filmmaking Process Did You Write The Score of The Film?
When I was growing up I read Christopher Hill’s book, The World Turned Upside Down. It’s a book that transforms your view of British history, it’s an amazing book and completely different to anything that gets taught in schools. And then as I was reading about that book I wanted to make a film about that time period (the 17th Century) – about those...
It’s a moment when the voices of the common people came through. You have the invention of the portable printing press and the collapse in government control. Suddenly you have this explosion of pamphlets essentially voicing philosophical ideas, religious ideas, political ideas, or even just people publishing cookbooks! But in a way, it was a techn...
A fair bit. It began with reading a combination of books and pamphlets and then bringing in historical advisors. Interestingly, I discovered that there’s a fairly large reenactment community in the UK – people who like to get together and dress up and pretend they’re fighting in the Civil War. Within that community, there’s a huge pool of knowledge...
It took about a year I guess, but that’s because of the involvement of the advisors and the experts. Then doing a draft and adjusting it based on comments and the language. We brought in someone who specialises in language who would go through it and pick out: “Oh you can’t use this word,” or “look at this sentence again”. So I guess it took a litt...
There are more details you have to get right before you start filming! So there’s a lot of preparation. But we were lucky because most of the film is in a single location so we were able to really focus and get everything ready and have that kind of control. It would be a lot harder if there were more locations, you’d definitely need more money in ...
We found a farm to the south of Bridgend in Shropshire, which is where we built the farm. We chose it based on the lay of the landscape. I had this idea in my head of how the farm would be laid out with the trees behind up to the north and the hill off to the east so the sun for certain scenes would twist through our location. It was all built ther...
Not specifically when I was writing it, but very early on I started to think it would be great to have Maxine (Peake) play Fanny. We had a casting director who made the approach. Maxine came on about a year before we shot the film. Maxine had a similar fascination with this kind of time period and our idea of how the film should be made, could be m...
The western is the biggest influence. But there are other elements to it. I guess when I was writing I wasn’t trying to stay in one box. There are different elements coming together, different influences. In the age of streaming maybe that’s not the most straightforward thing to do but I guess it is what it is!
I was giving themes for different ideas. There’s a freedom theme for when Thomas starts looking for freedom or when Fanny starts to demand a different life for herself. There’s an almost military puritan theme associated with John. Oh and the sheriff has a theme as well! That was the main focus – different themes for different characters, different...
In post. But I was always thinking when we were shooting the film. There were moments where I was like ‘this is going to be a music moment in the film’. But I didn’t know exactly what it would be, or who would be writing it.
The Delivered: Directed by Thomas Clay. With Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds. Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Thomas Clay
- 2021-01-15
Jun 29, 2020 · Director Thomas Clay and star Maxine Peake recall the mist-enshrouded Shropshire shoot of their English civil war-era religious western Fanny Lye Deliver’d.
Dec 22, 2021 · British period drama ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’ offers a powerful take on England’s bleak past – but it is far from the first example of this historical sub-genre.
Jun 23, 2020 · Maxine Peake plays a downtrodden Puritan in folk horror fable 'Fanny Lye Deliver'd', but she slowly turns on the violent patriarchy.
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Jun 24, 2020 · A powerful drama set in the aftermath of the English Civil War, it focuses on Fanny (Maxine Peake), a modest housewife living on a farm with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams) whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of two strangers.
