Clock's Ticking
A sci-fi chamber piece set in a 1977 hotel suite. Written and directed by Arjun Rose.
Shoot planned 2027
Original film and television, developed in London.
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A2R2 is a production company founded by writer-director Arjun Rose and actor-producer Archie Renaux. We develop original screenplays and IP, make short-form content for brands and teaching, and advise on AI-enabled production workflows.
In development: Clock's Ticking, with Archie Renaux and Solly McLeod attached. Shoot planned for 2027.
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One hotel suite. Four people.
Forty-seven afternoons.
He's been dead for a while, but he doesn't know it yet, and the only way back is through the man who got him killed.
Samuel is a fixer: elite, expensive, very good at not feeling things. Now he is dying in a government facility, and the people who put him there need a three-second memory of a woman's face, buried so deep his own mind is tearing itself apart to keep it hidden. So they build him an afternoon, a sealed 1977 hotel suite, and run it again and again. What none of them understand is that something inside Samuel has woken up, learned the walls, and started waiting.
- Written and directed by
- Arjun Rose
- Cast attached
- Archie Renaux and Solly McLeod
- Genre
- Sci-fi chamber piece, single location
- Setting
- A hotel suite, London, 1977
- Status
- In development, shoot planned for 2027
- Production company
- A2R2
The single location is a philosophy. Confinement creates pressure, and pressure reveals character. The laughs are real. The damage underneath them is also real.
The colour moves with the story. Act one is the warm gold of a comfortable lie. It bleeds to paprika at the confession, sours to avocado at the glitch, and resolves into tangerine as a door finally opens.
Harvest goldAct one
PaprikaThe confession
AvocadoThe glitch
TeakThe facility
TangerineAct three
Stills from the filmed rehearsal for Clock's Ticking. Not from the finished film.
In development
Original projects developed by A2R2. Clock's Ticking is first in line for production.
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What A2R2 does
Film and television
We write and develop original features and series in-house, attach cast and directors, and take projects to financiers, sales agents and distributors. Our first production, Clock's Ticking, is planned for 2027.
Short-form content
Short films and campaign content for brands, teaching content on performance and filmmaking, and proof-of-concept work that helps bring longer projects to financiers.
AI and workflow advisory
We advise production teams on using AI in script development, pre-production and post-production, and apply the same workflows on our own projects.
Watch
Short films, rehearsal footage and behind-the-scenes from A2R2, on our YouTube channel.
People
Arjun Rose
Co-founder. Writer, director and producer.
Arjun's scripts have been written for Lionsgate US, Working Title, Idris Elba and KO Paper Products, and he has published academic research on innovation in media technology. For more than ten years he has trained actors at The Unseen, the London acting school he runs, including Archie Renaux and Solly McLeod, who are attached to Clock's Ticking. He co-founded A2R2 with Archie to develop original film and television.
Archie Renaux
Co-founder. Actor and producer.
Archie's credits include Shadow and Bone (Netflix), Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios) and WAR (HBO). He co-founded A2R2 with Arjun Rose and is attached to star in Clock's Ticking.
Contact
For sales, distribution, brand work and press.
arjun@a2r2.co.ukFollow our work on YouTube @A2R2productions and Instagram @a2r2films.