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 Set in the English countryside,
the friends eat, drink, sing and dance to enjoy
their last Christmas, knowing everyone is going
to die the next day.
The movie, which premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival on Thursday night,
was written and shot before the COVID-19
pandemic with the idea of promoting it as a
Christmas movie with a twist, Knightley said.
But events soon changed that.
"It was very, very strange because when we first
started talking about this, this was utter
fiction and it was very funny because it was
utter fiction," Knightley told Reuters in an
interview.
"And then all of a sudden the last two years
have been the last two years and I do think it
should come with a warning because I think we're
all seeing it in a completely different way."
In the film, which is writer-director Camille
Griffin’s feature debut, a poisonous cloud is
approaching Britain, with online horror stories
of it slowly killing people.
"When we finished the film, we showed the
studios last year and they were crazy about the
film, but they were terrified by the film and
they didn't want to show anyone the film,"
Griffin said.
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 "I think they wanted to wait
until ... people had recovered because they
understood that we didn't know the pandemic was
going to happen when I wrote (it) and everyone
was cast and we went into production, so I think
we wanted society to have some sense of hope and
recovery."
The movie also stars "Downton Abbey" actor
Matthew Goode, "Peaky Blinders" actress
Annabelle Wallis, "Jojo Rabbit" star Roman
Griffin Davis and Lily-Rose Depp, known for "The
King" and "Voyagers".
Depp's character is the outsider of the group,
and often at odds with them.
"I think that's representative of a larger sense
of seeing things unfold around you and a group
mentality that they're trying to say (this) is
the right thing and everything and you're like,
well, I don't feel this way," Depp said.
(Reporting by Lisa Keddie; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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