Josh Hartnett time travel flick gets UK release
David Farnor | On 22, Apr 2016
With Penny Dreadful Season 3 returning in May, we’re always on the lookout for anything to do with its stars. For those wondering what Josh Hartnett, former teen heartthrob and star of Sin City, is up to these days when he’s not getting all hairy and angry with Eva Green, next week holds the answer: he’s made a time travel romance.
Time Traveller, which co-stars Tamsin Egerton and Bipasha Basu, will be released on VOD and DVD on Monday 25th April. Called The Lovers in the USA, the film was never released in UK cinemas, despite being written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields).
Unfolding across multiple centuries and continents, the epic travels to 18th century India and beyond to tell a sweeping saga of treachery, betrayal, and love. Hartnett plays present-day marine archaeologist Jay Fennel, who, following a diving accident while rescuing his wife, is left brain-dead. In his comatose dream state, Fennel is transported to India circa 1778, where a young British captain (also played by Hartnett) embarks on a life-threatening mission and a steamy romance with a female warrior (Basu).
The film was shot in Queensland Australia, India and in the UK at Pinewood Studios and England’s south coast in Portland, Dorset. Produced by Paul Breuls, the creative talent responsible for the look of the production include Academy Award-wining production designer Luciana Arrighi, cinematographer Ben Nott and visual effects producer Alan Church.
Joffé was inspired to make Time Traveller after visiting India. He says in a press release: “Flying back from India, I began to formulate a story about the way we relate to our past and how we relate to time. Quantum physics has totally rediscovered the universe and who and what we are and what the world is. I believe at some stage in the future, quantum physics will utterly alter our political, spiritual and material lives, probably for the better.”
The film is available to rent and download now on Amazon Instant Video, iTunes and Google Play.
Watch the trailer above.
