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.
What Richard Did What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012.