WHEN the apocalypse arrives, Ben Wheatley tells me, he’ll probably eat his dog first. It’s a matter of practicality. “I think the dog is more likely to come to me when I call it,” Wheatley admits. “He ...

JG Ballard's writing has always had a strong connection to music. The sleeve art for his 1970 book The Atrocity Exhibition featured in the V&A's David Bowie Is... exhibition, acknowledging the debt ...

Long a dream project for producer Jeremy Thomas, J.G. Ballard's dystopian High-Rise is finally getting its chance to loom on screen{ =nofollow}, with Ben Wheatley directing and Amy Jump writing the ...

There's a theory about the fiction of J G Ballard — on which this new film about life in a tower block descending into chaos from director Ben Wheatley and his writing partner Amy Jump, is based — a ...

In an appreciation published in The Guardian a few days after the death of J.G. Ballard, in April 2009, Martin Amis noted that the paragon of New Wave science fiction was “remorselessly visual.” Ben ...

"Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.” The opening ...

What would J G Ballard have made of the new High-Rise film? Ben Wheatley’s screen adaptation of Ballard’s novel brings its dry wit to the fore. By Will Self Of the film adaptations that had been made ...

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JG Ballard was inspired by the Westway and the Trellick Tower, discovers Ed Frith Is it burning yet?, 10 March, Greenwich University School of Architecture, London SE9 2PQ The title of Sibylle Heil’s ...

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In a seemingly perfect meld of director and source material it was announced today that Ben Wheatley is to direct Amy Jump’s adaptation of the 1975 JG Ballard novel High Rise. There have been previous ...