Filmmaker Harry Lighton, whose debut film Pillion won the BIFA award for Best Independent Film last year, sat down with the film’s producer Emma Norton at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival where he broke down his process of adapting the film from Adam Mars-Jones’ 2020 novella Box Hill.
“A lot of what we talked about in terms of how to approach the film was how to play with the contrasts of the novel,” Lighton told an audience at the Light House Cinema. “In the novel, there’s this kind of extreme contrast between this character who has got this kind of naïve optimism and romantic idealism and then this kind of hardcore sexual element in this relationship, which feels very divorced from romantic idealism.”
The film follows Colin (Harry Melling), a timid man who is swept off of his feet by Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), an impossibly handsome biker, who takes him on as
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