New sci-fi film ‘The Fix’, produced by Cayman’s Jeremy Walton, explores climate change and the uncomfortable choices we will have to make as a result.
Set in a dystopian future with toxic air, ‘The Fix’ follows a model who takes a new designer drug at a party and suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by ‘forces’ with competing interests in the drug’s effects, she discovers that her mutations could save the human race.
In his first sci-fi film production, Walton told the Cayman Compass, “It’s a genre I’ve always loved as a consumer, but I also feared how difficult it is to make that kind of film well. Now I really know!”
Speaking about director Kelsey Egan, Walton told the Cayman Compass, “She was interested in how much our perception of the world is impacted by how we are treated, and how much this is informed by appearances.
“She wanted to explore these ideas through the transformation story of a girl who feels that her appearance is the only thing she’s ever received validation for, but when she experiences a traumatic physical transformation, she has to figure out who she is outside of that … and learn what matters to her more than how she is perceived.”
The film stars Grace van Dien, Daniel Sharman and Clancy Brown,
The film process
As one of the producers, Walton said, “It’s actually one of the first feature film projects I got involved with, because I loved the [premise] and the story, and saw great potential in the filmmaking team and our plan to get the film made. It just took much longer than expected to complete.”
Walton described the film’s process as “long and arduous”, noting, “The plan was always to shoot in South Africa, where the quality of local cast and crew can deliver high production values at a much lower cost than the United States.”
He said the shoot, which coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, was “very badly affected and that caused massive logistical difficulties. Then the editing, which included over 600 visual effects, took two years to complete, due to a crippling energy crisis in South Africa after the pandemic.”
From legal practice to film
After retiring from legal practice, Walton said he wanted to “do something completely different and also to harness more of my creative side”. Having helped with a couple of ad hoc projects, Walton got serious about the business in 2018 and became a partner at Moo Studios in 2020.
He has since produced nine feature films and two documentaries, with two more features coming out next year.
“The most enjoyable thing about this industry is working with incredibly creative people, such as writers, directors, actors and others, who just have a different way of looking at the world and how it can be presented to audiences.”
The film is set to be released digitally on 22 Nov. People can pre-order it on Apple TV.
Walton hopes viewers of ‘The Fix’ come away with the understanding “that we’re causing harm to the Earth”.
“We know we’re doing damage,” he said. “We know the choices that we’re making are going to have a long-term impact on future generations. And yet, as a species, we are stubbornly resistant to change. That’s one of the themes we wanted to explore with this film and our hero’s transformation.”
Walton added, “As one character says in the trailer, ‘Either we change, or we die’.”
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