The organisers of the Toronto International Film Festival have pulled London Fields from their schedule after a dispute between the director and producers.  The film, an adaptation of Martin Amis's bestselling 1989 novel, was supposed to have three public screenings during the festival, but all have since been cancelled.  A statement from the festival read: "We have recently learned of a legal matter that has arisen between the director and the producers of the film London Fields... with uncertainty surrounding the creative vision of the version of the film scheduled to be screened on September 18, we feel it is only appropriate that we remove this film from the festival line-up."  The conflict between the film's director, Mathew Cullen, and its producer, Chris Hanley, emerged earlier this week, when Cullen filed suit against Hanley and his associates for "secretly [preparing] their own version of the film". "None of the revisionary elements that Defendants have interjected into the film appear anywhere in the script,” read the complaint filed by Cullen. "No cast or crew member signed up for this, nor did Plaintiffs."  That news was followed by the revelation that several of the film's cast – among them the leading actress, Amber Heard, her co-star and husband Johnny Depp, and Jim Sturgess and Billy Bob Thornton – have threatened to boycott the film.  The quartet have all reportedly written to the producers, objecting to an avant-garde edit which features violent imagery of nuclear war and drone attacks, as well as footage of 9/11 interspliced with pornography.  A sound mixer who worked on the film, Jovan Ajder, told The Telegraph that Hanley's version was "radically different" from Cullen's edit. “It was certainly more puzzling and confusing,” he said.  The film was picked up for distribution by Lionsgate yesterday. While Heard and Thornton are contractually obliged to help them promote the film, The New York Times reports that Depp does not want his name to be associated with the film.
The director of the Martin Amis adaptation is suing his producers, accusing them of recutting his film with pornographic and 9/11 imagery