Trivia

Originally wanted Mark Hamill to play Sir Gawain in Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) but the producers insisted on using Miles O'Keefe.

Began his career in 1965 directing short movies for British television.

In 1981, the London Evening Standard mistakenly printed Weeks' obituary! The writer was the Standard's film critic Alexander Walker. Fortunately it was quite favourable.

Weeks began his professional film career at age 17, directing a series of short films for Southern Television's Day-by-Day programme (an English ITV station). He made his film cinema short film, 'Moods of a Victorian Church' (1967) at age 19, and his first cinema drama, a film set in the First World War in France '1917' (1968) when he was 20. At 22, he made his first 'studio' picture, 'I, Monster' (1970) for Amicus Productions at Shepperton Studios, London. In 1968, when he applied for his ACTT Film Union card he had to lie about his age (his sponsors were Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz). He remains one of the youngest directors to have worked professionally.

Weeks is unusual in having made the same film twice in his career. He wrote and directed 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (1972, produced by Carlo Ponti) for United Artists, but UA was having an argument with Ponti when the film was completed, and the film was not distributed properly. He remade it in 1983 under the title 'Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' with Sean Connery playing The Green Knight for Cannon Films. However, on completion, Cannon Films were involved in a reverse takeover of MGM/UA, and for a second time the film wasn't properly distributed. Even today, the MGM-released DVD is made from a sub-standard scanned videotape and it is still not possible to view it in full CinemaScope with surround sound.

Lives in a castle in South Wales.