This film was originally titled In England although the idea comes from a planned series of short monologues that writer-director Jon Rosling wanted to create in 2009 who's overall titled was Five Pillars. The idea was to have the key characters delivering a two or three minute monologue on their particular "theme", with all of the characters linked in someway to show the symbiosis and inter-connectedness of modern society. The plan was to then workshop the characters into a feature length story, which would be titled In England.
Originally titled In England, the title was changed during production on the suggestion of actor George Newton who felt it might easily be confused with This Is England, in which he starred.
The bare bones of the story of Darren, Paul and Gary - and of a society struggling to comes to terms with it's identity - was first laid down by the writer-director Jon Rosling while he was at university in 1995 after he saw Matthieu Kassovitz directorial debut La Haine.
The words spoken by Paul at the beginning and end of the film were written by Jon Rosling although they were inspired by a similar book-ending in the French film La Haine.
The idea to produce Five Pillars came following a Directors' Masterclass workshop at the Bradford International Film Festival in April 2012, where Jon Rosling met Canadian actor and director Ingrid Veninger.
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