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Coded Pictures began production this week on the suspense drama Junkhearts in London, with a cast headed by Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio), Romola Garai (Atonement), and newcomer Candese Reid. The picture follows “a vulnerable ex-soldier haunted by his past, who finds himself manipulated by a young couple as they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.” This is director Tinge Krishnan’s feature debut with a script from Simon Frank (The Dry Cleaner). Hit the jump for the full press release.

Here’s the official press release:

Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge And Romola Garai Join “Junkhearts” As Film Cameras Roll In London

London: 1 June 2010 – Award winning actor Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky; Vera Drake, Sherlock Holmes) is joined by talented cast members: Tom Sturridge (The Boat That Rocked, Vanity Fair, Being Julia), Romola Garai (Vanity Fair, Atonement, I Capture the Castle) and newcomer Candese Reid in director...

Low-budget British indie Junkhearts is now being lead by the regularly excellent Eddie Marsan, and will be joined British up and comers Tom Sturridge (the young fella from The Boat That Rocked) and Romola Garai (I Capture The Castle, Atonement).Following on from his similarly dark and edgy The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, Junkhearts is a gritty urban story of an ex-soldier who is convinced by a manipulative young couple into letting them take over his house and use it as a drug den. Happy days!It’s being directed by newcomer Tinge Krishnan, who’s previously won a BAFTA for her short film Shadowscan in 2001, a similarly bleak tale, a discussion of depression set on a nightshift of an NHS hospital. The script is written by another relative beginner Simon Frank, who’s so excited about the project he tweeted just a few days ago: “Day two of Junkhearts shoot.

London -- Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge, Romola Garai and newcomer Candese Reid are all cast in director Tinge Krishnan's debut movie outing "Junkhearts," produced by Karen Katz from Coded Pictures.

Billed as a suspense drama, the script is penned by Simon Frank.

It details the story of an vulnerable ex-soldier haunted by his past, who finds himself manipulated by a young couple as they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.

Krishnan scored a BAFTA short film award previously for "Shadowscan."

Coded Pictures has so far produced short film "The Mood" and "Moving To Mars," a feature documentary directed by Mat Whitecross charting the repatriation of two Karen refugee families from Burma who move to Sheffield as part of the Un Gateway program.

Krishnan's "Junkhearts" begins shooting in London this week.

Robbie Ryan (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights, Red Road) decided he wanted to be a cinematographer at the age of 14 when he, his friends and his cousins commandeered one of his father's Kodak Super 8mm camera and started making short films. A college course in cinematography in Dun Laoghaire's Iadt fuelled that passion and he is now established as one of Ireland's most influential filmmaking exports. Iftn caught up with the cameraman to talk about the pitfalls of creative partnerships, cat-like cameras and shooting Dizzee Racal in an old folk's home. Robbie Ryan is quite the trophy collector having shot the Bafta-winning shorts, 'Shadowscan' and 'Antonio's Breakfast'. In 2006, his collaboration with British director Andrea Arnold on 'Red Road' won a Cannes Jury prize and the 2006 short thriller 'Cubs' won a clutch of British film prizes and was been nominated for a BAFTA. And Ryan's cinematography...