Amy Jump

Writing

Amy Jump

Known for

Writing

Credits

7 titles

Amy Jump’s versatility as a writer is evident in her scripts for films as diverse as Kill List, A Field in England and High-Rise, all of which she has written for director (and husband) Ben Wheatley. She received a British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay for Kill List

Known for

Behind the camera

Free Fire poster
6.2

Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

Free Fire

2017

High-Rise poster
5.6

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

High-Rise

2015

Sightseers poster
6.3

Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

Sightseers

2012

Kill List poster
6.2

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Kill List

2011

A Field in England poster
6.2

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

A Field in England

2013

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NR

An all-guns-blazing sci-fi action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters.

Freak Shift

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Wages of Fear poster
NR

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Wages of Fear

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