I'm glad that the definite sounding date has become a definite, definite date!  Something to look foward to as the nights start drawing in!

The festival no6 thing looks interesting - ".....John Njven...in conversation about the film with Irvine Welsh.."  Sounds like fun!

Oi, Oi! 

 

You're famous, shownomercy !

Wonder why he didn't post it at the time ? Actually did Damien ever say anything on Twitter about KYF or did everything come from other people in it ?

That's what I assumed too, domino

The first thing I thought when I saw that pic was it looks like a twitter avvie in waiting. Perhaps he got impatient to use it. Or perhaps he's got another one lined up for something else which is happening when kill your friends is released..... lol!  I'd guess he went to a screening, but I'm surprised that no-one else seems to have mentioned it....unless they did and I've missed ìt?

I recall that he tweeted something from the Electric Ballroom.....I don't think it was explicitly about kill your friends, but felt like the closest he came to acknowledging he was involved - tho I can't actually remember what it was!

It's all been so quiet around this film for so long - it feels like it's gaining some momentum at last.

No DaMo unfortunately, but 2 exclusive new KYF pics have been released by Empire!

Exclusive First Look At Nicholas Hoult In Kill Your Friends | Empire

Totally a Being Human / Ripper Street moment! Cannot wait to see Damien in pics with both Craig Roberts and Joseph Mawle. It's gonna be such a good weird!

Did anyone else have a fleeting moment when they saw this photo? I mean it's clearly not Damien, eyebrows all wrong.. but..

Interesting in-depth interview with KYF writer John Niven in the Independent.

The whole thing is worth a read, but the below stands out for me...

 

A fast and furious satire of stomach-churning excess, it features a memorable and monstrous anti-hero – Steven Stelfox – who spends much of the book with his penis stuffed into the mouth of one hapless prostitute or another, before deciding that the best way to get the better of his business rivals is simply to kill them. Niven doesn't soft-soap the racism and sexism in the industry – and the book is bursting with energy and outrageous behaviour.

"I was a political indie kid in my teens," he says. "I'd never hang out with people who would scream sexist abuse at women out of a van – but I can see how Kill Your Friends might be misinterpreted as a celebration of sexist culture. But I don't think that's what the book does. I'd be scared of a world where you couldn't have sexist, racist and misogynist characters in novels. To put these people in novels doesn't mean that that's what the book is; I mean, Lolita isn't a paedophile's handbook."

I ask him whether he wanted to say something about men. "I think that comes dangerously close to asking, 'what is the novel about?' It's about itself for 330 pages is the answer to that. Beware the novelist with a political agenda or message. There are novels written from that wellspring, but not ones I enjoy. I didn't set out to write a corrective text: the worst of humanity are often very entertaining. And writing about it keeps us off the streets."

discuss!

I also agree TJ, and it can be incredibly cathartic to watch a deliciously evil character. For me there is some discomfort in watching sexist racist homophobic characters and a slight inner confliction with enjoying it as entertainment, I get that it is fictional and not a commentary but still do feel something unsettling, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing in art. hope that makes sense. To give an example, Wolf Of Wall Street - a dark comedy - hilarious but at the same time I was left feeling a bit uneasy, not because of the whole explicit thing at all, but because of the sexism. Now I know that Leo Dicaprio and Martin Scorcese were not advocating any of it at all, but nevertheless. debauchery drugs sex in films never an issue for me but prejudice and exploitation on screen, without a comeuppance or some kind of non acceptance does always make me feel weird in whatever context its portrayed, so I laughed in the film but there was something niggling me too.

Domino, again we think alike. I'm bothered by racism and sexism (including homophobia) in real life, and have spent most of my life battling both, even to the point of restricting my children's access to their grandparents until said grandparents promised to change their language and behavior.
It bothers me in books, in music, in film. I cringe, and I've been known to walk out of a film because of what I consider gratuitous violence toward women. Obviously, some kinds of films I avoid altogether.
In the case of KYF, I'll be looking for how the narrative translates to the screen. I know what to expect, and I doubt I'll be rooting for Stelfox. I just hope the film doesn't try to polish him up and make him presentable somehow, in spite of his horribleness. I want him to be irredeemable.