"It's a story that will never let you go." He was introduced to Bill Curbishley, manager of The Who, who owned the rights to Lomax's books, but the story's epic scale and their plan to follow the structure of the book exactly was difficult to fund.Ī reshaping of the story to highlight the role of Patti Lomax proved more attractive.
Paterson first read Lomax's book more than 13 years ago and knew it was a film he wanted to make. Then decades later he got on a train and met a beautiful woman who made him laugh for the first time and she had the strength to try and find out what was happening to him." "You are left after that messed up for many, many years. "He was horribly punished," said producer and co-writer Andy Paterson. When guards discovered a radio he had helped make to bring news to the inmates, he was interrogated and tortured. Lomax, now 92, was in his early 20s when he was captured during in fall of Singapore in 1942 and was transported to Thailand to work on the notorious railway. It's about relationships… how that damage interacts with intimate relationships, with love." This is not just a portrait of suffering. We do sometimes see stories about what it's like coming home from war, we very rarely see stories about what it's like decades later. I think what is not often addressed is the effect over time. "Sadly, I can't envisage a time when it won't be relevant. "Just about any era you could name could be held to be famous for its brutality and devilish tortures," said Firth.
Speaking at a press conference in the Scottish capital today alongside Kidman and co-stars Stellan Skarsgård and Jeremy Irvine (who will play the young Lomax), Firth said he had been struck by the old soldier's story and how it still has relevance today. It is based on Lomax's book of the same name, which tells of his suffering as a young Scottish POW on the Burma railway and how, with the help of his wife, he travelled back to Asia to meet one of his torturers in an attempt let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate. The film, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, starts filming in Scotland on Monday.
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