High-Rise: Ben Wheatley on adapting JG Ballard

Ben Wheatley, the award-winning British director of films including Sightseers, Kill List and A Field in England, has delved into the dystopian world of JG Ballard with his latest project, High-Rise. Adapted by Wheatley’s writing partner and wife Amy Jump from the 1975 novel, the film is set in a tower block in which the rich live on the upper floors and the poor live below – a volatile state of affairs which soon erupts into chaos. BBC Arts met Wheatley at the Glasgow Film Festival to learn more about the challenges of adapting Ballard for the screen.