Film4 and BFI present in association with Protagonist Pictures,
co-produced by Attercop Productions and MC Pictures, an
Alcove Entertainment production
THE DOUBLE
A FILM BY RICHARD AYOADE
STARRING JESSE EISENBERG
& MIA WASIKOWSKA
RUNNING TIME: 93MINS
CERTIFICATE: 15
RELEASE INFORMATION: 4 APRIL 2014
PRESS CONTACT DETAILS:
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SYNOPSIS
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent
world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the
woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The
arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both
Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and
good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
LONG SYNOPSIS
Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a timid soul who lives alone, suffers an
awkward relationship with his unsympathetic mother, and labours virtually
unnoticed at his deadening office job. Starting a conversation with his
attractive colleague and neighbour Hannah (Mia Wasikowska) is almost
beyond his capabilities, though he does sometimes observe her from his
apartment window through a telescope. The threat of vanishing completely
seems to stalk Simon. His own mother has trouble remembering who he is
when he visits her care home; the security guard at his office refuses, day
after day, to recognise him; and the area in which he lives is beset by suicides
(Officers investigating these mark Simon down as “a maybe”). “I’m
permanently outside myself,” Simon observes. “You could put your hand
straight through me.” Others agree: a colleague tells him that he’s “pretty
unnoticeable… a bit of a non-person”, and one of the fellow residents of his
mother’s care home tells him “You’re not right.” This resident, however, also
provides him with the odd gift of a knife – and the enigmatic advice to
“make the cut deep.”
There’s reason for Simon to feel even more “outside himself” – but also a glint
of hope – when a new arrival joins his workplace. James Simon (Eisenberg
again in a double role) is, as his name suggests, Simon’s mirror image:
ostensibly the same, with an identical physical appearance, but with
diametrically opposite character traits. James is as confident at work as he is
with women: a philanderer, a rakish risk taker and the life and soul of every
party to which his meek lookalike has never been able to get himself invited.
James also moves in across the street from Simon, within the sightlines of his
telescope.
Initially James seems to be a source of guidance for Simon, advising him on
his romantic life to the point of talking him through a date with Hannah via an
earpiece. Simon reciprocates by helping James to succeed at work - for all
the newcomer’s popularity and bravado, he’s no grafter, and has little idea
what his job is meant to entail. When James commences relationships first
with the boss’s young daughter Melanie (Yasmin Paige), and then with
Hannah herself, Simon’s loyalty is challenged and it runs out altogether when
James asks him to assist in keeping his conflicting love interests apart. Simon
asks James to desist in his courtship of Hannah, using his knowledge of
James’s professional incompetence, but James responds with a threat of
blackmail: he’ll expose compromising photographs of himself with Melanie,
and tell the world that it’s Simon who’s with her. In his increasing desperation,
Simon discovers that he’s connected to James via more than appearance:
when James causes him a minor physical wound, the mark appears on both
of their bodies.
Hannah, meanwhile, suspects that James is seeing other women, and asks
Simon to find out for her. Simon opts to intervene indirectly: knowing that
James is with Melanie, he calls Hannah, pretending to be Simon, and asks her
to come over. When she does so, James sends her away; Simon sees all
through his telescope.
At work, however, Simon seems less substantial than ever: his ID card is taken
away from him, and he’s told that “according to the system”, he’s never
existed at all. Simon tries to report James to their superiors as an inadequate
worker, but he cannot make himself heard, and he is finally ejected from the
premises. At home, through his telescope, he sees Hannah prone on her bed.
He breaks into her flat and finds her unconscious, a suicide note left behind.
He takes her to hospital and is told that she has suffered a miscarriage. On her
recovery, he takes her home; she is far from grateful, rather declaring that she
hopes to try and again, and suggesting that Simon might be best served by
doing the same.
Simon receives a phone call letting him know that his mother has died. Upon
arriving at the nocturnal funeral she has requested, Simon finds James there,
and attacks him. Once again, their physical interconnection is apparent:
when Simon punches James his own nose bleeds. This gives Simon an idea.
Following the funeral, he goes to James’s apartment and handcuffs his
double to the bed. He telephones the police and tells them that he has
observed a neighbour “about to jump”. He then returns to his own apartment
and jumps from the window. Because of his detailed knowledge of a previous
suicide, he knows how to angle his jump to avoid death. Badly injured, but
satisfied that he has destroyed his rival; Simon is taken to hospital in an
ambulance. James, meanwhile, lies undiscovered, bleeding from his own
head wound.
THE DOUBLE – PRODUCTION STORY
Robin C Fox and Amina Dasmal operate their Alcove Entertainment on the
basis that the creative talent leads the process – always. Their partnership with
Harmony Korine as producers on 2009‘s Trash Humpers came about because,
as Fox has it, “we hunted him down, and told him that whatever film he
wanted to make, we’d do it!”
In 2007, Fox and Dasmal met Hamony’s brother, Avi Korine, who was working
on a script adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double. It struck
the producers that this story of a solitary, troubled man whose life is upended
by his over-confident alter-ego might appeal to another name on their
creative wish-list – the British writer, director and performer Richard Ayoade,
then yet to make his debut as a feature director.
“We’d been stalking Richard,” Fox ruefully recalls, “using every method we
could think of to get him interested in something… but it was difficult,
because he’s got taste! With this script, we thought at last we might have
something on which he might not go so cold and quiet. We saw that it would
suit his sensibility – both his sense of humour, and his understanding of the
subject matter.” They also saw, however, that the project would need time to
evolve: “Richard wasn’t just going to come in and shoot someone else’s
script.” But, says Dasmal, “if we feel excited, we go at the pace the talent
needs. It’s about supporting the process, if you want the best. Of course there
are days when you want to be shooting rather than waiting – but it’s
incredibly fulfilling when you do read that next draft.” It helped that coproducers Film4 also “believed in Richard’s ability to deliver what was in his
imagination”, Dasmal says. “They’re in a different category and rightly so.
They were genuinely brilliant to work with.”
The result of letting Ayoade pursue his vision to the hilt is a film that resists
obvious commercialism, and genre categorisation. Fox points out that
concern for the supposed demands of the market is reduced by “spending
time around people who talk about market conditions, and seeing the abject
failures that spawn from that!” Dasmal notes that the producers use
themselves as a guide: “This is a film we want to watch, so there’s an
audience out there.” If the world in which The Double takes place is an
unfamiliar one – claustrophobic; jittery; at once futuristic and redolent of a
non-specific, dusty past – its emotions are accessible. “Loneliness and feeling
undervalued are universal,” says Fox “as is romance”. “The love story is very
beautiful,” Dasmal adds. “Richard really surprised us with how he captured it.”
Ayoade also impressed with his confidence in making his imagined
environment into a real space. “He can go into a room,” says Fox, “and
completely capture what he’s trying to create.”
Australian rising star Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre; Stoker; The Kids are All Right),
who plays Hannah, was interested in Ayoade having seen his feature debut
Submarine, which she describes as “brilliant”. Her interest in his second
directorial outing was further stimulated by her friendship with Harmony
Korine, who encouraged her to look out for his brother’s script when it came
her way. Working with Ayoade was, she says, “really amazing. I haven’t had
an experience that’s been this fulfilling in all areas. His direction is so clear,
and he has a really sensitive way of dealing with actors and getting the best
out of us.” Moreover, Ayoade’s treatment of the material, and the clarity of
his vision of the atmosphere of the piece, surprised her. “He’s elevated the
material in a way that I didn’t really expect – he had a really unique way of
seeing things,” she says. “It’s not completely specified what kind of world we
live in here, and Richard’s brought such a strong vision to it.” The ambiguity of
the story’s time and place, she feels, reflects a story that says different things
to different people. “There are so many ways of seeing the idea of someone
who’s exactly the same as you. It’s subjective – so everyone who sees the film
will have a different view of what it means.”
That’s a sentiment echoed by Ayoade’s lead actor: Golden Globe, BAFTA
and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg. Working on The Double was
“the most interesting experience I’ve ever had”, says the star of Zombieland,
The Social Network and Now You See Me. “The stuff Richard was doing was
amazing. Every room, every scene was located in this ambiguous place and
time. And he never wanted anything to be standard. Often, an actor comes
with his own strange ideas, and the director takes them and shapes them into
a normal movie scene. Richard takes actors’ strange inclinations… and
pushes them farther. It’s an approach that brings rewards. Something about
the way he works makes it impossible not to engage completely. That applied
to all of the actors, even those who came in for one day.”
The actor’s own interest in working with Ayoade stemmed from his own
uncharacteristic response to Submarine, which was sent to him as
background before the Double had a completed script. “I don’t watch
movies,” Eisenberg laughs, “so I just put it in to watch the first five minutes. Not
only did I watch the whole thing - I watched it two times in a row. I thought it
was the greatest thing I had ever seen. Every moment was full of emotional
richness, and funny, and real – it was just unique. Then I met him and realised
why. He has this unique sensibility, this aesthetic that is totally his own.”
The Double also presented Eisenberg with a challenge: that of playing two
characters in one film. “I thought it was a really interesting acting
opportunity,” he says. “Richard’s goal was not to create a traditional comic
dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters, but something much
more psychologically complicated.” Shy, dysfunctional, resentful Simon and
his cocksure mirror image James are, says Eisenberg, “not so much different
people as different manifestations of the same psyche. So for me it was about
coming up with different gestures and voices to convey the visceral
experience of each character. Once I figured out the emotional tone of
Simon, James came more quickly. Simon isn’t traditionally hapless and wellmeaning, he’s emotionally fraught and inept; and James isn’t evil and
malicious, he’s charming and capable. Simon’s emotional response is
histrionic, so he lives in a dystopian world. James lives in the same world, but
for him it’s utopian.”
An actor who lives his parts vividly, Eisenberg noted his own variable feelings
embodying each character. “If my day ended with playing Simon, I would go
home miserable,” he recalls. “It was a relief to play James, because Simon
was so self-hating and miserable. I definitely took on their traits. I was full of
ideas playing James, but playing Simon, I was so shut down; and I would want
to do the scene over and over again…”
An additional trauma for Eisenberg, who never sees his own films, was having
to watch parts of his own performance in order to piece together scenes in
which both characters appeared. Despite his Richard Ayoade fandom, he
says this is as close as he will come to watching The Double. “I was in a
Woody Allen movie [To Rome With Love],” he points out, “and it’s the only
one out of his forty-plus movies that I’ll never see!” Experience doesn’t help
with his aversion to seeing himself on screen (“it becomes worse”), and nor is it
assuaged by acclaim or awards (“I just think I’m being tricked”).
Richard Ayoade is happy to be among the tricksters. “He was great,” the
director says of Eisenberg, “and just sort of perfect – there was no-one else we
offered it to. There aren’t many actors who could play both parts, and have
that precision. He’s technically brilliant, but also spontaneous and instinctive –
great actors can do both.” And great stories, Ayoade believes, can easily
support the co-existence of humour and melancholy. “I’m not sure there’s
such a strong division between what’s uncomfortable and what’s funny,” he
says. “The novella is about someone who’s going mad, but at the same time
it’s funny; it’s pompous; it’s silly. A lot of things I like have that tone.”
Producer Robin C Fox says Ayoade is “incredibly good at referencing”, and
sure enough the director name checks a vast number of film texts that helped
to inspire The Double’s extraordinary visual and emotional tone, among them
Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, David Lynch’s Eraserhead (both of which he
describes as “very funny), Orson Welles’ The Trial and Federico Fellini’s Toby
Dammit. He further notes a sense of Scandanavian kinship (he is halfNorwegian) with the melancholy, deadpan-comic worlds created by
Sweden’s Roy Andersson and Finland’s Aki Kaurismaki. Within British cinema,
he notes, The Double has fewer clear antecedents. “There are so few British
films that aren’t in a realist tradition. British films have tended to be more
about social problems than existential ones. The best ones are parochial,
specific – and made on low budgets. Fantasy has sets that require building!”
The Double’s environments are cramped, intense evocations of Simon’s inner
reality, rather than the elaborate stuff of the sci-fi spectacular; but the film’s
physical world was nonetheless a challenge to construct. “To not locate
things geographically or temporally,” Ayoade says, “is infuriatingly difficult.
We spent five months just on the sound. For most films, it’s a simple process of
recording things with fidelity to the realistic. For this, it was the opposite:
everything had to happen in a not-real space.” Cinematographer Erik Wilson,
who previously worked on Submarine, also had to shelve concerns about
naturalism. “Submarine was all natural light, but this was lit so differently,”
explains Ayoade. “It just shows you how good Erik is.” Direction, too, had to
be “more controlled”, because of the use of special effects and motion
capture.
Ayoade’s air of mild bafflement about what he’s made extends to the willing
participation of his varied and eminent supporting cast, the international mix
includes British veteran James Fox, and Hollywood stars Cathy Moriarty and
Wallace Shawn. “It seemed unbelievable they might do it,” Ayoade marvels.
“I don’t really understand it myself. London is attractive to Americans…”
Submarine provided Ayoade with almost a complete set of returning case
members – Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor have substantial roles in The Double,
while Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine all appear in cameos
– but, he claims, not much ballast. “It’s surprising how little you learn!” Perhaps
channelling his inner Simon just a little - or relying on his very British realism - he
notes that “You never feel like you’re doing it right. You’re just slowly trying to
work it out.”
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Simon / James – Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is a playwright and actor, currently starring alongside
Vanessa Redgrave in his play, “The Revisionist”. Last year, he wrote and
starred in the play “Asuncion” at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for which he was
nominated for a Drama League Award.
Films include The Social Network for which he received an Academy Award
nomination, Zombieland, Adventureland for which he received a BAFTA
nomination, The Squid and the Whale for which he received and
Independent Spirit Nomination and Roger Dodger.
Recent films include Now You See Me, The Double and Night Moves.
He is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s, where he writes the column
Bream Gives Me Hiccups and his humor essays have appeared in The New
York Times, Harper’s and The New Yorker.
Hannah - Mia Wasikowska
In a short time Mia Wasikowska has established herself as a rising star of the
big screen. A trained ballerina turned actress, Wasikowska has been
challenging herself as a performer since the age of 9. She made her debut in
the US in Rodrigo Garcia’s HBO series In Treatment which received a Golden
Globe Award nomination for Best Drama Series in 2009.
In 2009, Wasikowska starred in Edward Zwick’s Defiance alongside Daniel
Craig, Liev Schrieber and Jamie Bell and in Mira Nair’s Amelia starring Hilary
Swank and Richard Gere. Wasikowska also appeared in Scott Teems’
independent picture That Evening Sun which earned her an Independent
Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010 she played Alice
in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland co-starring Johnny Depp, Anne
Hathaway, Michael Sheen and Alan Rickman. She also co-starred in Lisa
Cholodenko’s Academy Award nominated film The Kids Are All Right. In 2011,
Wasikowska secured the lead role in Cary Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed
film Jane Eyre, sharing the screen with Michael Fassbender, and also
appeared in Gus Van Sant’s film Restless which made the official selection of
the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, Wasikowska starred in the Weinstein
feature, Lawless alongside Shea LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain
and appeared in Chan-wook Park’s Stoker. In 2013 Wasikowska will star
opposite Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade’s The Double and she will also
make her directorial debut an adaptation of Tim Winton’s best-selling short
story collection The Turning.
Mr Papadopoulos - Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn is an actor and playwright and has appeared in over 50 films.
His playwriting credits include Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Grasses of a
Thousand Colors and The Designated Mourner. Acting credits include: Film:
Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Radio Days, Shadows and Fog, Melinda &
Melinda, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Also, Vanya on 42nd Street, My
Dinner With André, Clueless, Admission, A Late Quartet, The Princess Bride, The
Bostonians, Personal Velocity, The Haunted Mansion, My Favorite Martian, The
Hotel New Hampshire. Shawn voiced the character of ‘Rex’ in the Toy Story
animated feature films. Television: ‘Gossip Girl’, ‘The Good Wife’, ‘Eureka’,
‘The L Word’, ‘Murphy Brown’, ‘The Cosby Show’ and ‘Taxi’. Special
appearances on Clueless, Civil Wars, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine and PBS’s How To Be a Perfect Person in Three Days.
Melanie - Yasmin Paige
Yasmin is well known for her role as Jordana in Submarine; she won critical
acclaim for her performance and was nominated for a number of awards.
Other film roles include Tooth for (which she won the Best Actress Award at
The Annual Children’s Entertainment Awards 2004), Wondrous Oblivion, True
True Lie and I Could Never Be Your Woman. She is known to TV audiences for
the BBC series ‘Pramface’ (series 3 is shooting at the moment). As a child
Yasmin was well known for her role as Maria in ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’
and as Michaela in ‘Secret Life’ which gained her a nomination at the Monte
Carlo Television Festival 2008. Yasmin will soon be seen in Richard Ayoade’s
The Double. Yasmin was chosen by Screen International as one of their 2010
‘Stars of Tomorrow’.
Harris - Noah Taylor
Noah Taylor is one of Australia’s most accomplished film actors and has
worked with some of the world’s finest directors and actors. His credits
include The Year my Voice Broke, Flirting (both directed by John
Duigan), Nostradamus Kid (director Bob Ellis), Almost Famous (director
Cameron Crowe), Tomb Raider, Shine, Max, The Life Aquatic (director Wes
Anderson), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (director Tim Burton), New
World (director Terrence Malick) and Lecture 21 (director Alessandro
Baricco). Other feature credits include Submarine, Red Dog and Red, White
and Blue.
Noah was most recently seen in ‘Game of Thrones’ playing the nasty Locke.
He will soon be seen in Mindscape and The Double. Noah has
been nominated for many awards, and is a four-time winner of the Film
Critic’s Circle of Australia Best Actor Award. Noah is very active musically,
both on his own and in numerous collaborations. He also regularly paints and
enjoys drawing.
The Colonel – James Fox
James Fox’s extensive film career includes: A Long Way from Home, EFFIE,
W.E, Clean Skin, The Kid, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, Tim Burton’s Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, The Mystic Masseur, Up at the Villa, Sexy Beast,
Mickey Blue Eyes, Anna Karenina, Remains of the Day, Patriot Games, The
Russia House, Absolute Beginners, A Passage to India, Greystoke,
Performance, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines and The
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner.
Television credits include: ‘Unknown Heart’, ‘1864’, ‘The Great Train Robbery –
A Coppers Tale’, ‘Utopia’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Law & Order’, ‘Midsummer Murders’, ‘Red
Riding’, ‘Margaret’, ‘Lewis’, ‘New Tricks’, ‘Harley Street’, ‘Waking The Dead’,
‘Freezing’, ‘Absolute Power’, ‘Miss Marple’, ‘Colditz’, ‘Poirot’, ‘Trial and
Retribution’, ‘The Lost World’, ‘Private View’, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’,
‘Guillvers Travels’ and many, many more.
Kiki – Cathy Moriarty
Cathy Moriarty’s first film credit was Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull in 1980; she
played Vikki LaMotta, the wife of Robert De Niro's lead character. Her
performance earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. In the 1980’s she starred in the cult movie Neighbors, and
had a huge number of supporting roles in films including Kindergarten
Cop and Soapdish. In the 1990’s roles included an appearance as the villain
Carrigan Crittenden in film Casper and as Rose Donlan, wife of Harvey Keitel's
corrupt cop in 1997's Cop Land. Moriarty reunited with De Niro for
2002's Analyze That, in which she played female Mafia boss Patti LoPresti.
Recent work includes Sebastien with Eric Roberts, Rob the Mob with Andy
Garcia and Michael Pitt, The Double and a number of appearances in ‘Law
and Order’.
CREW BIOGRAPHIES
Director / Co-writer – Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade is a Perrier Award winning writer and director. In 2004
Ayoade co-created and directed Channel 4’s spoof horror comedy series
‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’, in which he also appeared. This was followed
with a sequel series ‘Man to Man with Dean Lerner’ which Richard directed
and co-wrote and was broadcast on primetime Channel 4. He has
performed in ‘The Mighty Boosh’ (as well as script editing) and the Emmy
Award Winning ‘IT Crowd’. After signing up with Warp Films to direct promos,
Ayoade has made music videos for The Arctic Monkeys, the Yeah Yeah
Yeahs, Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, the Last Shadow Puppets and Vampire
Weekend. He also directed the feature-length concert film of the Arctic
Monkeys at the Apollo which was released in 2008. Ayoade’s directorial
debut came in 2010 with the critically acclaimed and award winning
Submarine.
Co-writer - Avi Korine
In 2007 Avi co-wrote the film, Mister Lonely, starring Diego Luna and Samantha
Morton with his brother, Harmony Korine. The Double - co-written with Richard
Ayoade - is his second film. Avi has also written about boxing and basketball
for both Freedarko.com and The Sporting News.
Producers Robin Fox & Amina Dasmal
Alcove Entertainment was co-founded by producer Robin Fox and Amina
Dasmal in 2005. Alcove Entertainment are currently in post-production for The
Double, a comedy co-written and directed by BAFTA-award nominated
Richard Ayoade and co-developed and co-financed by Film4.
Alcove Entertainment's first feature Cochochi, a production with Gael García
Bernal and Diego Luna's production company Canana, won the Discovery
Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, in addition to the Grand Jury Prize
at the Miami International Film Festival in 2008. Subsequent films
include Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers, which was awarded the Grand Jury
prize at the CPH: DOX Film Festival in 2009. The film was distributed on DVD
and VHS in the UK with Warp Films. The Caller, a supernatural thriller directed
by Matthew Parkhill and written by Sergio Casci, starring Rachelle
Lefevre, Stephen Moyer and Luis Guzman was picked up by Sony Pictures for
distribution after premiering at the 2011 Berlinale Film Market.
Director of Photography - Erik Wilson
Erik Wilson is a Norwegian DoP living in the UK. Erik lit 2nd Unit for Wes Craven
on The Hills Have Eyes I & II through 20th Century Fox, and in 2006 he shot the
documentary The Journalist and The Jihad that won two Emmy nominations.
In 2007 he shot Main Unit on the horror features Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
and Pumpkinhead: Bloodfeud, as well as ITV's ‘Murderland’ starring Robbie
Coltrane. Other feature films include Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, Paddy
Considine's Tyrannosaur, The Imposter, Now is Good and most recently the
Nick Cave film 20,000 days on Earth.
Co-producer - Andy Stebbing
Andy produced Submarine along with Mark Herbert& Mary Burke at Warp
Films and is Co-producer on Richard Ayoade’s forthcoming film The Double,
starring Jesse Eisenberg & Mia Wasikowska. Currently he is Co-producing
‘Harry Hill the Movie’ for Entertainment, with Director Steve Bendelack (Mr
Beans Holiday). Previously he produced the micro-budget film Kicks directed
by Lindy Heymann and was Co-producer on Fernando Meirelles’s360 starring
Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law & Rachel Weisz. Other credits include Line
Producing Neil Marshall’s Centurion for Pathe, Sarah Gavron’s adaptation of
Brick Lane for Ruby Films and Film4’s Brothers of the Head, which won the
Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Composer – Andrew Hewitt
Andrew Hewitt is a BAFTA nominated composer whose features include The
Sea (Ciaran Hinds, Rufus Sewell) with violin solos by Grammy-award winning
Hilary Hahn; The Brass Teapot (Juno Temple, Michael Angarano);
Submarine (Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine) and Cuckoo (Richard E Grant).
A graduate of Cambridge University, he first toured globally as a performer in
the UK’s most prestigious classical ensembles (and in film scores including Stars
Wars and Lord of the Rings), before proceeding to score TV movies,
commercials, short films, and TV series’ such as Richard Ayoade’s ‘Garth
Marenghi’s Darkplace’. Andrew orchestrates and conducts all his scores,
recording often with the renowned Composers Ensemble orchestra. The
Double is his sixth feature. www.andrew-hewitt.co.uk
OPENING CREDITS
DIRECTED BY RICHARD AYOADE
WRITTEN BY RICHARD AYOADE & AVI KORINE
STORY BY AVI KORINE
BASED ON ‘THE DOUBLE’ BY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
PRODUCED BY ROBIN C FOX & AMINA DASMAL
CO-PRODUCER – ANDY STEBBING
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS MICHAEL CAINE
GRAEME COX
TESSA ROSS
NIGEL WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS –
POLLY STOKES
HARMONY KORINE
CHARLES-MARIE ANTHONIOZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – ERIK ALEXANDER WILSON
PRODUCTION DESIGNER – DAVID CRANK
EDITORS – NICK FENTON & CHRIS DICKENS ACE
HAIR AND MAKE UP DESIGNER – JAN SEWELL
COSTUME DESIGNER – JACQUELINE DURRAN
ORIGINAL SCORE - ANDREW HEWITT
RE-RECORDING MIXER - NIGEL HEATH
SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR - JAMES FELTHAM
EXECUTIVE VFX PRODUCER - SIMON WHALLEY
VFX SUPERVISOR - MATT CLARKE
CASTING BY – DOUGLAS AIBEL, KAREN LINDSAY STEWART
STARRING
JESSE EISENBERG
MIA WASIKOWSKA
WALLACE SHAWN
NOAH TAYLOR
YASMIN PAIGE
CATHY MORIARTY
PHYLLIS SOMERVILLE
AND JAMES FOX AS ‘THE COLONEL’
KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH
TONY ROHR
SUSAN BLOMMAERT
JON KORKES
TIM KEY
LLOYD WOOLF
LYDIA AYOADE
SALLY HAWKINS
J MASCIS
CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
CHRIS O’DOWD
CRAIG ROBERTS
KIERSTON WAREING
FULL CREDITS
Simon/James
Hannah
Mr Papadopoulos
Melanie
Harris
The Colonel
Kiki
Simon’s Mother
Strange Woman
Detective
Young Detective
Guard/Doctor
Liz
Hairy Man
Janitor
Rudolph
Secretary
Care Worker
Man on Train
Box Man
Coughing Man
Receptionist at Ball
Investigator
Well-Dressed Woman at Ball/Test Invigilator
Waiter
Workers’ Services Executive
Nurse
Priest
James’ Funeral Date
Simon/James Acting Double
Stand In
‘The Replicator’
Jack
Head Judge
Wise Judge
Glamorous Judge
Jack’s Wife
Jesse Eisenberg
Mia Wasikowska
Wallace Shawn
Yasmin Paige
Noah Taylor
James Fox
Cathy Moriarty
Phyllis Somerville
Gabrielle Downey
Jon Korkes
Craig Roberts
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Susan Blommaert
Bruce Byron
J Mascis
Tony Rohr
Karima Riachy
Tim Key
Andrew Gruen
Kim Noble
Morrison Thomas
Sally Hawkins
Lloyd Woolf
Lydia Ayoade
Stuart Silver
Christopher Morris
Chris O’Dowd
Donal Cox
Kierston Wareing
Andrew Gruen
Rob Munns
PT Kommandor
Dirk van der Gert
Liam Bewley
Gemma Chan
Nathalie Cox
Guard 1
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Kim Noble
Stuart Silver
Unit Production Manager
1st Assistant Director
Simon Fraser
Jack Ravenscroft
Sound Recordist
Location Manager
Script Supervisor
Supervising Art Director
Set Decorator
Focus Puller
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Motion Control Supervisor
Video Technician
Assistant Video Assist
Martin Beresford AMPS
Helene Lenszner
Laura Miles
Denis Schnegg
Barbara Herman Skelding
Iwan Prys Reynolds
Trevor Speed
Robbie Chapman
Jay Mallet
Lizzie Kelly
Adam McGrady
Jamie Starr
Chris Cavanagh
Lee James
Nicholas Gillett
Martins Rozentals
Mike Taylor
Thomas Fennell
Lee Thompson
Boom Operators
Sound Assistants
Sound Trainee
Costume Supervisor
Costume Design Assistant
Key Set Costumer
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Hair & Make-up Artists
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Assistant Editor
Gaffer
Best Boy
Electricians
Electrical Trainee
Grip
Property Master
Dressing Props
Stand-by Props
Stand-by Painters
Stand-by Carpenters
Stand-by Riggers
Special Effects Supervisor
Special Effects Technicians
Brendan Handscombe
Sinéad O’Sullivan
Nick Roche-Gordon
Nicole Pitchers
Claire Pawsey
Lisa Pickering
Jennifer Knipp
Jason Rayton
Andy Lowe
Chris Stones
John Antill
Sean Davis
Daniel Chaytor
Del Strachan
Noel Cowell
Kez Keyte
Martin Kane
Barney Ward
Kevin Day
Simon Hutchings
Henry Steedman
Darren Caen
Dave Creed
Micky Coveny
Jesse Foster
Mark Holt
Peter Kersey
Dave Holt
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production Coordinator
Second Assistant Director
Third Assistant Directors
Assistant to Producers
Production Runners
Floor Runner
Floor Runner/Stand In
Stunt Coordinator
Simon/James Stunt Double
Stunt Performer
Dialogue Coach
US Casting Associate Director
Casting Assistant
Standby Art Director
Assistant Art Director
Graphic Artist
Graphics Assistant
Storyboard Artist
Computer Graphics Design
Art Department Assistant
Production Buyer
Construction Manager
Assistant Location Manager
Location Assistant
Production Accountant
1st Assistant Accountant
2nd Assistant Accountant
Post Production Accountants
Jon Savage
Alice Syed
Joel Clarke
Tom Rye
Sarah Mooney
Chris Foggin
Anthony Lee
Faye Green
Fiona Harper
Teresa Orlando
Hannah Roose
Jamie Edgell
Marcus Shakesheff
Chris Newton
Tony van Silva
Penny Dyer
Henry Russell
Emily Jacobs
Oli van der Vijver
Daniel Nussbaumer
Camise Oldfield
Kira Kemble
Adrian Marler
Graeme Cox
Emily Durtnall
Corina Floyd
Harry Metcalfe
Hannah Lamb
Steven Cong-Tran
Craig Barwick
Jane Trower
Christie Birtchnell
Post Sums
Tarn Harper
Polly Wilby
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David Morley
Anne Shanley
Zoe Flower
Dean Rogers
Nick Wall
Richard Lloyd
Graeme Cox / Attercop Productions
Production Secretary
1st Assistant Directors – Splinter Unit
Kasia Majewska
Andy Mannion
Martin Curry
Nige Watson
1st Assistant Director – VFX Unit
Floor Runners
Lizanne Murphy
Amanda Dudley
Teariki Leonard
Charlotte Huyton
Mark Rossi
Laura Moloney
Francesca Chen
Director of Photography
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‘B’ Camera Operator
Jake Polonsky
Richard Philpott
Hamish Doyne
‘B’ Camera 1st Assistants
Ralph Ramsden
Tony Stanier
Rupert Hornstein
Tristan Haley
Roger Bowles
‘C’ Camera 1st Assistant
2nd Camera Assistants
Louise Ben-Nathan
Ben Jones
Luke Cairns
Charlotte Ginsborg
Roland Phillips
Colin Strachan
Nick C Teulon
Nick Ray
James Ray
Bob Freeman
Tony Shults
Jim Boorer
Christopher Rusby
Gary Hutchings
Ron Nichols
Charlie Creed
Luke Chidgey
Sebastian Marczewski
Luke Lloyd
Shiraz Jawed
Nick Vegas-Murphy
2nd Assistant Camera VFX Unit
‘B’ Camera Grips
Camera Trainees
Electricians
Costume Assistants
Standby Props
Alex Brown
Gareth Brough
Sam Alberg
Nathan Porter
Pawel Polak
Joshua Dempsey
Daniel Stones
Sam Heasman
Theo Milford
James Bridger
Ronnie Shane
Sol Saihati
Ben Fordesman
Mike Farr
Anthony Bandy
Duncan Riedl
Christian Hayes
Nicholas Britt
Justine Warhurst
Dee Churchfield
Charlie Sadler
Christoff Roche-Gordon
Joe Withers
Matthew Broderick
Dressing Props
Hair & Makeup Artists
Hair Cuts
Driver to Mr Eisenberg
Driver to Ms Wasikowska
Unit Driver
Minibus Driver
HOD Facilities
Caterers
Catering Manager
Unit Drivers
Driver to Mr Fox
Minibus Driver
Assistant Re-Recording Mixer
Dialogue Editor
Sound Design Editors
Foley Mixer
Foley Artist
Foley Editor
ADR Mixer
Audio Post Production Coordinator
Sound Re-Recorded at
Colin Ellis
Daniel Dutton
Josh Stovell
Patrick Gallagher
James Gray
Jean-Claude Allen-Jendges
Jonathan Hurst
Benjamin Bagley
Emma Sheldrick
Peta Dunstall
Dorey Sheppard
Paul Mooney
Issy Webley
Sylvia Atkins
Giada Venturini
Michéle Davidson-Bell
Soleil Jackson
Julia Townend
Paul Edmonds
Mike Beaven
Jimmy Carruthers
Allen Roberts
Mike Moran
Chris Free
Reel Meals
Richard Gibbs
Graeme Downie
Tony Traxon
Warren Deluce
Gideon Mullins
Peter Bryant
Lee Edwards
Lawrence Ogunfidodo
Ed Mclean
Larry Wells
Pat Sheil
Jeremy Bull
Tony Evans
Alexander Fielding
Alex Sawyer
Adam Armitage
Andy Kennedy
Keith Partridge
Barnaby Smyth
Stuart Bagshaw
Alexander Fielding
Jules Zabbar
Hackenbacker Audio Post Production –
London
Visual Effects by Framestore
VFX Artists
Paul O’Brien
Simon Stoney
Jack Fisher
Design
‘The Replicator’ Colourist
Titles Design
VFX Editorial
VFX Co-ordinator
Vanessa DuQuesnay
Savneet Nagi
Avtar Bains
Sherrine Byfield
Alex Gooding
Frances Hill
Stephanie Joy
David Lochhead
Ian Spendloff
Steven Kelly
James Witcomb
Nick Constantinou
Dave Ludlam
Sharon Lock
Robert Jewell
Catherine P. Jackson
Digital Intermediate provided by Company 3
Colourist
DI Producers
Head of Department
CO3 Executive Producer
Rob Pizzey
Marie Fernandes
Rob Farris
Jonathan Collard
Cheryl Goodbody
Emily Greenwood
Justin Tillett
Russell White
Laurent Treherne
Peter Collins
Aurora Shannon
Laura Pavone
Dan Helme
Neil Harrison
Fiorenza Bagnariol
Timothy P. Jones
Gordon Pratt
Patrick Malone
Stefan Sonnenfeld
Orchestrator and Conductor
Musicians
Piano Soloist
Orchestral Manager
Recorded and Mixed at
Recording Engineer
Music Supervisor
Music Editor
Andrew Hewitt
The Composers Ensemble
Huw Watkins
Mary Wiegold
British Grove Studios, London
Nick Taylor
Ian Neil
James Bellamy
DI Assistant Producers
Digital Conform
Digital Conform Assistant
DI Technologist
Colour Assistants
Data Wrangler
Systems Administrator
Digital Film Bureau
“Akasaka Rain”
(aka “Ameno Akasaka”)
(Jun Hashimoto/Tsunaki Mihara)
Published by Watanabe Music Publishing Co. Ltd © 1968
Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the UK & Eire
Performed by The Blue Comets
Licensed courtesy Watanabe Music Publishing Co. Ltd
Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the UK & Eire
“Sukiyaki”
(Hachidai Nakamura/Rokosuke Ei)
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd. © 1962
Performed by Kyu Sakamoto
Licensed courtesy of EMI Records
“East Virginia”
(Trad. / Ilkka Lipsanen)
Published by ©Warner/Chappell Music Finland Oy (TESOTO)
Performed by Danny & The Islanders
Licensed courtesy of Warner Music UK Limited
“Splendour In The Grass”
(aka “Sougenno Kagayaki”)
(Jun Hashimoto/Tadao Inoue)
Published by Watanabe Music Publishing Co. Ltd © 1968
Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the UK & Eire
Performed by The Blue Comets
Licensed by NIPPON COLUMBIA CO. LTD
“After The Sayonara”
(aka “Sayonarano Atode”)
(Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Jun Hashimoto)
Published by Standard Music Publishers Inc (Jasrac)
All rights administered by Warner/Chappell Music Holland B.V
Performed by The Blue Comets
Licensed Watanabe Music Publishing Co. Ltd
Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the UK & Eire
“Blue Chateau”
(Jun Hashimoto/Tadao Inoue)
Published by Watanabe Music Publishing Co. Ltd © 1967
Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the UK & Eire
Performed by The Blue Comets
Licensed by NIPPON COLUMBIA CO. LTD
“The Sun”
(Shin Joong Hyun)
Published by Shin Joong Hyun MVD
Performed by Kim Jung Mi
Courtesy of Light In The Attic Records
& Distribution, LLC (c) 2011
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Sam Lavender
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Co-produced by Attercop Productions and MC Pictures
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International Sales by Protagonist Pictures
Made with the Support of BFI’s Film Fund and Film4
THANKS TO
Riverside Environmental Services / Gary Darsey, Precious About Makeup (PAM), Dr.
Martens, Agnes B,
Academy Costumes, Gerry Healy, Dagny Ayoade, Mary Fox, Esmé Ayoade, Ida
Ayoade, Afra Mae Fox,
Aya Lynn Fox, Khalifa Dasmal, Lynn Dasmal, Layla Kaylif, Suhayl Kaylif, Dominika
Tworkowska,
Carol Mirza, Sacha Szwarc, Ben Browning, John Padrnos, Joseph N. Cohen,
Mohammed Saleem,
Adam Ellis, Caroline Chignell, Claire Nightingale, Philip Raskind, Hugo Young, Stuart
Cornfeld,
David Cronenberg, Julian Barratt, The National Museum of Computing
‘For Lydia’
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any
similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and
unintentional.
No animal was harmed in the making of this film
This film (including soundtrack) is protected pursuant to the provisions of the laws of
England and Wales and other countries. Any unauthorised duplication and/or
distribution of this film may result in civil liability and criminal prosecutions.
© Channel Four Television Corporation, The British Film Institute, Alcove Double Limited
2013