After directing Bad Blood, Mike Newell went on to direct what BAFTA award winning film?
Bad Blood (1982 film) Bad Blood is a 1982 British-New Zealand thriller film set during World War II in the small town of Koiterangi (now "Kowhitirangi") on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and is based on the factual manhunt for mass-murderer Stanley Graham. The film was directed by English director Mike Newell, who went on to direct "Four Weddings and a Funeral". Much of the film was shot at the original locations. The script was based upon "Manhunt: The Story of Stanley Graham", by H. A. Willis (Whitcoulls, 1979) and adapted by New Zealand-born Andrew Brown.
By Any Name By Any Name is a 2017 British action thriller film, that has won two awards at the 2016 North Wales International Film Festival and is based on the book of the same name by Catrin Collier. The film follows the story of John West who is admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia after he was found half naked running down a motorway and covered in blood. He has no memory of who he is. All he can recall is a detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry and military techniques that indicates a background in terrorism.