McAlpine: I’m so lucky I gave Amber’s film flop a miss

THE film version of Martin Amis’s London Fields was one of the biggest flops in recent history and is now best known for its leading lady, Amber Heard, accusing her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, of suspecting she was conducting an affair with her co-star Billy Bob Thornton.

Harrow-educated producer Hamish McAlpine, who now lives in Dublin, says he had a lucky escape from the debacle, having originally been a co-producer before he quit the film in pre-production.

The £ 6.4 million film took just £340,000 at the box office.

‘I withdrew when I realised the direction it was going in,’ he tells me at a private view of the Tales From The Colony Rooms show at Dellasposa Gallery, near London’s Hyde Park. ‘I joke that I was one of the biggest winners from that film, as I only lost £30,000!’