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Martin Amis on London Fields: 'I never thought it would be a popular film'

As the troubled adaptation finally hits screens to negative reviews and bad box office, the author talks about the difficult journey from page to screen

Hollywood fiascos of this caliber come once or twice per decade.

After over 15 years of assorted delays, a big-screen adaptation of Martin Amis’ murder-mystery novel London Fields arrived in US theaters at the weekend. David Cronenberg was attached to the earliest phases of the project in 2001, replaced by a series of decreasingly prestigious film-makers that has led to Katy Perry music video veteran Matthew Cullen. Cullen prepared a cut of the film for the Toronto film festival in 2015, but was decidedly displeased to discover that the producers had re-edited the film for exhibition on the festival circuit. He sued over the rights to final cut privileges along with fraud and failure to provide payment, and the production team countersued over his contractually prohibited choice to pursue side jobs while working on London Fields.

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