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Hippie Hippie Shake

Hippie Hippie Shake
Directed by Beeban Kidron
Produced by Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Nicky Kentish Barnes
Screenplay by Lee Hall
Based on Hippie Hippie Shake
by Richard Neville
Starring Cillian Murphy
Sienna Miller
Sean Biggerstaff
Max Minghella
Emma Booth
Peter Brooke
Music by Dario Marianelli
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Country United States
France
United Kingdom
Language English

Hippie Hippie Shake is an unreleased British drama film produced by Working Title Films. The film is based on a memoir by Richard Neville, editor of the Australian satirical magazine Oz, and chronicles his relationship with girlfriend Louise Ferrier, the launch of the London edition of Oz amidst the 1960s counterculture, and the staff's trial for distributing an obscene issue. Hippie Hippie Shake stars Cillian Murphy as Richard Neville, with Sienna Miller as Louise.

British film production company Working Title began development of Hippie Hippie Shake in 1998, but the film was repeatedly delayed, changing directors and screenwriters. In September 2007, the film finally began principal photography. In 2011 Working Title said that the film will not be released in cinemas.

Hippie Hippie Shake follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier, as Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of the radical magazine and are put on trial for publishing an obscene issue. The film serves as a metaphorical journey through the 1960s in London.

In October 1998, British film production company Working Title Films announced the development of the film Hippie Hippie Shake, based on Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties, a memoir by Oz magazine editor Richard Neville. Screenwriter Don Macpherson was hired to write the adapted screenplay for the film, which was slated to begin production in 1999, depending on Working Title's status following the breakup of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.


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