I wanted to totally take away everything that was part of the concept to begin with. I wanted to challenge that to create a conventional scenario with a leading actor, a protagonist, a femme fatale and all that stuff… and then crash it into a tree and let one of the wheels go bouncing down the road and follow that wheel. Three acts, a character arc, all those things that you get taught not as if they’re rules, but as if that is what a film is. I believe the movie business attracts rules like no other. With Locke, it was can you take the most ordinary person in Britain doing the most ordinary job driving down the motorway and make it into a film. I decide to direct a film because I feel like it’s something that if I handed it over, the pressure to change it would be such that it would get changed, and I like to challenge myself. This film had a unique reaction when it was first released in the US. The powers that be were serene about it being the title. We have a bit of a bone to pick with you: There’s already another film called Serenity! Did you know about it beforehand? Warning: This contains mild spoilers about Serenity’s themes. To begin with though, we had to ask him the most important question of all… We caught up with Knight a few days after the social media discourse had begun to speak about how he reacted to the initial reviews, his writing process, and what he’s working on next. Written and directed by Steven Knight, the thriller starts off as a tale of a fishing boat Captain (Matthew McConaughey) who is propositioned by his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) to murder her violent husband, before taking a turn that, for better or worse, earns the ‘you have to see it to believe it’ distinction. To say that Serenity turned a few heads upon its US release is something of an understatement.
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