Hello, folks. How are you this week? Thank you very much indeed for joining us for another episode of my podcast soundtracking.

Hugely appreciate you taking the time. As we know, there are so many brilliant options out there for you guys to listen to.

Now, we're very happy because we've got a proper mate of the show, a proper friend of the show for this

latest episode of soundtrack. And as Mr. Ben Wheatley returns for his fourth sitting, oh yeah,

four times, four times on this show. We love him. He was our first ever guest. He previously

joined us to discuss high rise, free fire,

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. And this time around, he's here to talk about his take on

Daphne de Morier's Rebecca from a screenplay by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.

And if you haven't seen it yet, well, you can watch it right now on Netflix. It's brilliant.

I loved it. Rebecca sees Ben reunited with composer Clint Mansell, who's also provided the scores for

High Rise and Colin. And it's with one of Clint's cues that we begin. Last night, I dreamt, I went to Mandalay

again.

Music dreamt, I went to Mandalay again. I'm The The I'm No. I'm No. I'm

the The Listen, congratulations on this film. I mean, we spoke about it last night with a couple of your cast.

And I just love how you've said this in the past about how you,

you kind of deliberately do a kind of right turn into what you do next sort of thing.

And what was the appeal for you with Rebecca,

if you don't mind just talking about why you wanted to give us your version of this,

you know, Daphne de Mory story, which, I mean, her book's got so much, so much to tell and how you found your story within that.

Yeah, I think it's from a lot, it starts in a lot of different places, there's all these things, as projects usually do, but it was kind of, when I was doing some work at Working Title and they were developing a few things

and they kind of, they said they had, they'd been working on a version of Rebecca for a while

and would I like to read the script? And I was like, oh, I guess. I mean, it's a very, it felt very

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