Basically in November 1998 a series of 10 films were shot for U.K.'s Sky Premier channel which are all based on real life stories of strange happenings on the London Underground. It's finally premiering on Friday 19th November (1999) on Sky Premier. The storylines stretch from the turn of the century to the present day.
The project started when London listings magazine Time Out asked readers for contributions of tube stories. Ewan McGregor and singer Jarvis Cocker direct some of them and Denise Van Outen is in one of them. Ewan's film Bone is about lost love (like he's ever experienced lost love - who in their right mind would dump Ewan???)
Van Outen (who used to host Channel 4's Big Breakfast TV show, dyed her hair red (from blonde-ish) to play Alex in "Horny", where she wreaks revenge on a sleazy businessman on a tube journey.
"Being here brings back lots of memories of travelling on the Tube as a schoolgirl," she said. "Rather like my character, I have used my sexuality a lot to get attention on the Tube. And as it is a confined space, they can't get away."
Horny is directed by Stephen Hopkins, who also directed Lost In Space.
32 year old Amy Jenkins, was the first person Richard Jobson approached to direct Tube Tales. Amy used the direct/write the absolutely brilliant TV series This Life (why aren't there going to be any more Amy?
Her short film for Tube Tales is called "Mr Cool" and stars Dexter Fletcher from the hit Brit Film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Her commments come from The Guardian newspaper:
"It's based on an incident, sent in by a Time Out reader, in which a packed train has to be evacuated, and a really cool bloke comes clattering down the stairs, squeezes his way past all the waiting passengers, jumps on the train, and then very meekly has to get off again because the train isn't moving.
"I'm fascinated by the Tube. We lived in south London but I went to school in north London so I spent most of my teenage years going up and down the Northern line. Or stuck in a tunnel."
Other stars in it (or directing it) are Ray Winstone in "My Father the Liar", and Daniela Nardini in "Mouth" (from This Life), (all brilliant British TV drama actors) Bob Hoskins, and
