Introduction

Capsule is a 2015 film directed by Andrew Martin.

Outline

After years of flying fighter planes and 5 years as test pilot, Guy is now, 04 December, 1959, on a secret British space capsule orbiting Earth trying to re-enter but things start going wrong. Can he, despite the cold war, get back to Earth safely?

Cast

• Edmund Kingsley … Guy Taylor
• Lisa Greenwood … Charlotte Taylor
• David Wayman … Harry Lyndhurst
• Nigel Barber … Agent Mike Spann
• Gil Kolirin … Graham Bennett
• Michael Koltes … Bob Elijah

Trivia

• The astronaut ‘Guy Taylor” is suffering from severe Hypoxia (Oxygen starvation).
  • Three of the main symptoms of this are confusion, disorientation and acute behavioural change.
  • Brain function can become impaired making it difficult to pay attention, making irrational decisions with poor judgement.
  • After consultation the production team decided to go with these traits of the illness for the character from the moment he wakes up after blacking out.
  • Taking him out of the environment he would normally have complete control of during his test pilot days and throwing him into an environment with little to no oxygen and see his character change from the consummate professional to someone barely holding it together on to the edge of his life.
  • Hypoxia can also cause severe headaches and hallucinations, seeing and believing things are real that aren’t there.
• The images of Earth outside the windows of the Capsule used no CGI and were in fact a front projected 90 minute 4k video of one complete orbit of Earth shot from space.
• The Capsule used was genuinely very small and claustrophobic.
  • Edmund Kingsley playing ‘Guy Taylor’ could reach both walls of the Capsule without stretching his arms out fully.
  • The Capsule contained seven key shooting hatches.
  • The Director used lengthy takes of up to seventeen minutes to enhance the tension and claustrophobia and between takes, Edmund would frequently stay in the Capsule.
• The rocket used to propel ‘Hermes’ into orbit is the Black Knight.
  • These were British rockets being tested as vehicle for re-entry studies.
  • Essentially designed as an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, it was manufactured by Saunders-Roe on the Isle of Wight, had its engines tested at High Down Rocket Test Site 1956-1959 and launched at Woomera in Australia.
  • 22 vehicles were fired between 1958 and 1965.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s):
  • Andrew Martin
• Producer(s):
  • Clare Cahill … line producer
  • Felix Forrest … producer (as Paul Forrest)
  • Martin Forrest … line producer: post production
  • Robert Horwell … associate producer
  • Mohammed Patel … executive producer
  • Joshua Poulsen … line producer: pre-production
  • Omar Qamar … executive producer
  • Stuart Wilkins … associate producer
  • Waseem Zaman … executive producer
• Writer(s):
  • Felix Forrest … (story)
  • Andrew Martin
• Music:
  • Hugo de Chaire
• Cinematography:
  • Felix Forrest
• Editor(s):
  • Jan Hillman
• Production:
  • Ecaveo Capital Partners
  • Hermes Space Industries
• Distributor(s):
  • 4Digital Media (United Kingdom, 2016)
  • AMG Entertainment (Japan, 2016)(DVD)
  • Level 33 Entertainment (United States, 2016)
  • levelFILM (Canada, 2015)
• Release Date: 23 December 2015 (UK)
• Running Time: 91 minutes.
• Rating: 15.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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