Franklyn (2008) on Netflix
In Meanwhile City, masked vigilante Jonathan Preest hunts the Individual, who has taken a girl. In London, Emilia films her overdose, Peter seeks his missing son and Milo sees Sally everywhere.
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Plot summary
Jonathan Preest is the one atheist in Meanwhile City, a comic-book metropolis where every citizen is required by law to follow a religion. He wears a mask and works as a vigilante, and his enemy, the Individual, has taken a young girl; while Preest searches the streets for her, the city's authorities arrest him. In London, four lives are drawing together. Emilia is an art student who turns her self-destruction into projects, and one of them leaves her waking in a hospital. Peter Esser, a religious man, comes to that same hospital asking about his son David, a soldier who returned from Iraq unstable and then vanished. Milo has been left by his fiancée days before the wedding, and he cannot shake the conviction that Sally, a red-haired friend from his childhood, is somewhere near.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Franklyn (2008)
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- Ewan McGregor was cast as the lead in October 2006 with production slated for summer 2007, but he broke his leg in a biking accident in February 2007 during the second series of Long Way Round and was forced to leave the project.
- McMorrow's visual inspiration for Meanwhile City came from the religious iconography he saw in Mexico City shopping malls; he imagined a capital city based on religion, somewhere like Florence or Rome, sent three miles into the sky.
