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Maybe it was like that in real life, but I kinda doubt it. As it was, no one in the movie seemed to pay proper attention to his very obvious psychological problems.
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I'm not sure how to represent it cinematically - maybe have some of the supporting characters talk about his mental condition, plus what happened to it after he started taking the medication. How exactly would you represent that cinematically? doctor in a white coat comes out at the end and gives the audience a stern talking-to about mental health? The movie doesn't really put much thought into whether his suicide could've been avoided. The production team hopes to begin shooting in Manchester later this year. According to NME, New Order will rerecord some Joy Division tracks, as well as lay down some new songs, for the soundtrack.
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Deborah Curtis and Tony Wilson, Factory Records founder and the subject of 24 Hour Party People, will both be credited as co-producers. The film will be the first feature from acclaimed photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn (Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box"). (It is her book, Touching From A Distance, on which the screenplay is based.) German actress Alexandra Maria Lara, who just finished filming the new Francis Ford Coppola film Youth By Youth, will play the singer's lover Annik Honore. Samantha Morton, who has previously been nominated for Oscars for her work in Woody Allen's Sweet And Lowdown and Jim Sheridan's In America, will play Curtis' widow, Deborah. Newcomer Sam Riley will play the brilliant-but-doomed singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980 on the eve of the band's first American tour. Casting has been announced for the upcoming Joy Division film, Control.