Film4 Productions: Seven Psychopaths

Info: It was released in the United States and Canada 12th October 2012, and it was released in the UK 7th December 2012.

Director: Martin McDonagh
Producer: Martin McDonagh
                 Graham Broadbent
Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh
Distriubution: Momentum (UK) and CBS Films (US)

Plot: A struggling writer who has dreams of finishing off his screenplay, seven psychopaths; his friend is an unemployed actor. his friends Billy and Han help him find inspiration for his play, by putting up an advertisement by inviting psychopaths to come and share their stories.

McDonagh:

• Was born in Camberwell London, to Irish parents; he grew up with his brother John who's also a writer-director. Martin writes both films and plays, but prefers film writing, "It's not that I don't respect theatre. I'm intelligent enough to know that a play can completely inspire a person as much as a film (but) theatre isn't something that's connected to me, from a personal point of view, I can't appreciate what I'm doing."
• McDonagh wrote and directed his first full-length feature, In Bruges (2008), which he recieved a BAFTA Awards for original screenplay.

Broadbent:
He's produced a number of successful films such as; 'Marigold Hotel (nominated), 'Brudges,' which was also a Film 4 production and 'Becoming Jane' (won 2 awards including People's choice).

Inspiration: 

• McDonagh's previous film Six Shooter, which was successful and is almost like a sequel to Seven Psychopaths. 
• Personal inspiration as the plot is based on a screen writer in his early years, and the main actor is played by Collin Farrell, whose also Irish. 

                                                              Martin McDonagh 

                                                                 Graham Broadbent