The eagerly-awaited second directorial outing from Alice Lowe is nearly ready – and more details have popped up.
Alice Lowe’s proven herself not just terrific in front of the camera, but thanks to 2016’s horror Prevenge, she’s a dab hand behind it too. Lowe wrote and directed the film, and for some time had been working towards her second movie as director.
That film is Timestalker, an ambitious-sounding science fiction movie that once again she’s written and directed, and will also be starring in. It looks as thought the film might be completed too, as a couple of fresh details have popped up online.
There’s a synopsis for a start, that I don’t recall seeing before. It reads as follows…
From the creative team behind PREVENGE comes… TIMESTALKER, a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love, spanning the most romantic epochs of history right into the future.
TIMESTALKER follows hapless heroine Agnes (Alice Lowe) through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, gets reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. It is one story told over many periods, all with the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow your heart. Or maybe your loins…
Agnes’ only hope in avoiding this violent fate is by finally reaching spiritual enlightenment; but how can she ever wise up when she’s destined to be a fool for love? Some lessons are just too hard to learn in one lifetime.
Furthermore, the running time is said to be 90 minutes (god bless you, Alice Lowe), and HanWay Films is listed as its sales agent (a deal inked in 2021, as we reported here).
We can’t spot Timestalker on the UK release list yet, so presumably there’s still distribution to lock down. Don’t be surprised if Timestalker also makes its debut at a festival somewhere this year.
Hugely excited for the movie, though. There’s a tiny bit more about it over at the Popcorn Group website, here. We’ll keep you posted as we hear more about it.
