Kill List Ben Wheatley returns to the small screen this month with Channel 4 zombie comedy series, Generation Z. Here’s a trailer:
Kill List director Ben Wheatley is about to television with this autumn’s Generation Z, which Wheatley has written and directed for Channel 4.
According to the British Comedy Guide, the series is a horror satire which pits a group of small-town teenagers (the gen-Z of the title) against a horde of toxin-infected, rabid pensioners. It’s a little bit like Rabid Grannies, then, but with a distinctly political, post-austerity, post hope-for-the-future spin.
As the synopsis points out, it’s about “the increasingly stark divisions between generations,” and depicts “a modern Britain at war with itself. Sounds good!
The cast is itself a platter of multi-generational comedy talent. Elder states-people of telly Sue Johnston (The Royle Family), Anita Dobson (EastEnders) and Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith) are joined by Jay Lycurgo (Titans), Buket Komur (Our House), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy) and Viola Prettejohn (The Crown).
Though Ben Wheatley’s first film Down Terrace is a terrific slice of micro budget British cinema, it’s 2011’s Kill List that really put him in the big leagues, a genuinely unsettling film that has become a modern horror classic.
He followed it up with Sightseers, with Steve Oram and Alice Lowe’s script intertwining huge laughs with Wheatley’s directorial style.
Timestalker, Lowe’s most recent film as writer and director, is in UK cinemas now, and it’s a bit of a corker.
Over time, Wheatley has refused to be pigeonholed, going from the historical horror of A Field In England to the 1970s aesthetic of High-Rise and the psychological terror of In The Earth.
On the small screen, he has directed several episodes of Graham Duff’s sitcom Ideal – the show is coming to BBC iPlayer imminently – and Doctor Who episodes Deep Breath and Into The Dalek.
Generation Z is coming to Channel 4 on the 27th October at 9pm.
Watch the trailer below: