Deadline has partnered with The Brit List to profile some of the emerging writers who have made this year’s ranking of the best unproduced UK film and TV projects. Launched in 2007, The Brit List has previously featured projects including The King’s Speech and Responsible Child. In this piece, we profile brothers Dylan Ritson and Blake Ritson, who have made the list with P.O.V.
Described as an “elevated Sci Fi” feature, P.O.V. is set in a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyone’s outlook on life. The synopsis reads: Lyle catches a glimpse of a reality he can’t unsee when he is handed a faulty prescription.
“We generally get excited about elevated genre and high-concept ideas where you take a grounded world with one little thing you change, and that becomes a prism to unlock a whole new way of looking at the world,” Blake said of the origins behind the idea for P.O.V., adding that the film tonally resembles “a bit of Black Mirror, Truman Show, and Charlie Kaufman.”
P.O.V. marks the first feature from Dylan and Blake. The brothers have written and directed many shorts, including Out of Time, which screened at the Tokyo CON-CAN Movie Festival, Inside/Out, which played the Venice, Edinburgh, and Montreal Film Festivals, and Love Hate, which starred Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell. Away from their close collaboration, Dylan is also a solo writer, with stage and radio credits. Blake is an actor. His credits include Emma, HBO’s The Gilded Age, and Indian Summers.
“P.O.V. is sort of an idea that we’ve been kicking around for a while. And the technology had always felt completely speculative,” Dylan said of P.O.V.. “But now there are things like the Apple Vision Pro and HoloLens, so the tech has started catching up.”
Dylan and Blake have yet to attach either a director or a producer to the project, but they have a clear vision for the collaborators they wish to enlist to bring their story to the big screen.
“We wanted to create something that would be a gift for a director of visual flair, something that someone could really have a lot of fun with, creatively,” Blake said, adding that they are open to all possible interpretations of the work.
“We had a really interesting meeting recently. One of the producers was saying we should show up some animation companies, which isn’t something we’d ever considered, but could warrant some investigation,” Blake explained.
So, who could play the main character?
During our discussion, I floated the idea of Paddington actor Ben Whishaw, who worked with Dylan and Blake on the short Love Hate. Something about the idea of Whishaw in the glasses seemed to work for me. Dylan and Blake could see the vision.
“Ben Whishaw is often in our heads when we’re writing things,” Blake said. “He’s one of my favorite actors. I think he’s incredibly adept at comedy, and this is largely a comedy film.”
Blake added, “We’re also working on a high-concept comedy TV series that we think he’d be perfect for, so yes, he’s very much in the forefront of our minds for many projects.”
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