Beats Movie Storyline. Set in 1994 Scotland, two best friends Spanner and Johnno are dealing with their own troubles where one lives with a criminal brother and the other is leaving to a new town with his family and potential step father. As they go in their separate ways, Spanner and Johnno head out to party on their last night out, where they steal from Spanner’s brother and foray into an underworld of anarchy, freedom and collision with the forces of law and order.
Beats is a 2019 British drama film directed Brian Welsh. It was based upon a play of the same name by Kieran Hurley, who adapted the screenplay with Welsh; Steven Soderbergh acts as an executive producer. The plot follows a pair of teenage friends in 1994 Scotland who try and sneak into an illegal rave party. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2019.
Brian Welsh first came into touch with Steven Soderbergh around 2015, when Soderberg has seen an episode of Black Mirror that Welsh had directed and approached him with a new project. While Welsh turned that down, he showed Soderberg his Beats script, who then joined as an executive producer on the film. For the climatic rave sequence, filming took place in a warehouse in the Glasgow city centre, using over 1,500 background actors.
Beats had its international debut at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. On 17 May 2019 it was released in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and on 7 November 2019 in the Netherlands.
Beats (2020)
Directed by: Brian Welsh
Starring: Laura Fraser, Lorn Macdonald, Cristian Ortega, Brian Ferguson, Ross Mann, Amy Manson, Rachel Jackson, Neil Leiper, Stephen McCole, Josh Whitelaw, Stephen McCole
Screenplay by: Kieran Hurley, Brian Welsh
Production Design by: Víctor Molero
Cinematography by: Benjamin Kračun
Film Editing by: Robin Hill
Costume Design by: Carole K. Millar
Art Direction by: Stephen Mason
Music by: Stephen Hindman, Penelope Trappes
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Music Box Films
Release Date: May 17, 2019 (United Kingdom), June 26, 2020 (United States)
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