24 Hour Party People
Short description
Tony Wilson is a television reporter in Manchester who, in 1976, attends a Sex Pistols concert that changes his direction. He talks his station into broadcasting one of the band's performances, and local punk groups soon seek him out as a manager. With his friends, he sets up the independent label Factory Records and later a nightclub, The Hacienda, and the film follows the music and the people around them from the late 1970s into the 1990s. Joy Division, later New Order, and Happy Mondays figure prominently, and Wilson addresses the camera directly at times.
Michael Winterbottom directed, working from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce; Andrew Eaton produced. It is the fifth of fifteen films Winterbottom directed, following The Claim and preceding Code 46. Steve Coogan plays Tony Wilson, with Lennie James, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis and John Simm among the main cast. The credits list sixty-six cast members and forty-eight crew members.
The film was released in February 2002 and took roughly 3 million dollars worldwide at the box office. On TMDB it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from 537 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Hacienda nightclub closed in 1997, and the building was demolished three years later (a residential complex now stands on the site). For the filming of the movie, a replica of the building was constructed on the grounds of an abandoned warehouse—mostly based on the memories of people who had once visited the club. When the club closed, many interior items were sold at auction, and they were specifically tracked down for the shoot.
- The exterior scenes of The Hacienda nightclub were filmed on the exact site where it once stood in central Manchester. The scenes featuring the band Happy Mondays were filmed at The Ritz nightclub.
- The film's opening scene, in which Steve Coogan's portrayal of Tony Wilson is hang-gliding in a news report, is based on a real event. Furthermore, some original footage from that news broadcast featuring the real Wilson was edited into the scene.
- In 2003, Tony Wilson wrote a book that served as the basis for the film's plot.
- For the filming of the movie's final episodes at The Hacienda, fifteen hundred party-goers gathered, not to mention the DJs who once worked at the club and returned to the decks. Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook of Joy Division and New Order, as well as Mark Berry of Happy Mondays, were also present.
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