Redirected
Redirected was made as a Lithuanian-British co-production with the bulk of creative leadership and post-production based in Lithuania. The production was unusual at the time: an English-language film driven by a Lithuanian director, shot partially in Vilnius and partially in London, financed through a combination of Lithuanian tax-incentive support, Baltic regional funds, and international distribution pre-sales. The reported budget was approximately $2.7 million.
Financing
Lithuania introduced a film tax-incentive scheme in 2014 — covering up to 20% of qualifying production budget at its original level, later raised to 30% in 2018 — designed to attract international productions and support domestic ones. Redirected was one of the early Lithuanian-led productions to take advantage of this framework. The financing stack combined incentive-backed local funding, pre-sales to British and continental European distributors, and post-production services in Vilnius.
The $2.7 million budget was substantial for a Lithuanian production at the time but modest by British or American standards. Most of the visible production value comes from location work — the Vilnius cityscapes and rural Lithuanian sequences — rather than from set construction or VFX. For broader context on the financing infrastructure, see our Lithuanian cinema guide and the Lithuanian film industry primer.
Shooting
London sequences
The opening casino scene and the early London beats were shot in and around the city. These sequences are relatively contained — interiors and night exteriors — and were budgeted to minimise time in London while still delivering the visual signature the script needed. Antony Strachan, Gil Darnell, Oliver Jackson and Scot Williams worked the London setups before the production moved to Vilnius for the main shoot.
Vilnius and central Lithuania
The bulk of the shoot was Lithuanian. Vilnius locations included parts of the old town, peripheral residential districts, and the immediate airport surrounds. The rural sequences were shot across central Lithuania in a series of locations chosen for their visual variety — agricultural land, forested back roads, and the kind of mid-century industrial sites the script depended on for its final-act warehouse confrontation.
Lithuanian crew filled most positions below the director and DP, which is part of how the budget worked but also part of how the film achieved its specific texture. Crews familiar with the locations and the local logistics could move efficiently between setups, and the production's pace reflected that.
Cast on set
The London-Lithuania production presented a specific challenge: an English-language script with British actors who do not speak Lithuanian, working alongside Lithuanian and Russian actors who do not speak English at performance level. The production handled this by structuring most dialogue-heavy English scenes between the four British leads, where the language remained consistent. Cross-language scenes were structured so that comedy did not depend on perfectly synchronised translation — the gaps and misunderstandings were the point.
The Lithuanian cast was anchored by Vytautas Šapranauskas as Priest, alongside Aurimas Meliešius (Vycka), Andrius Žiurauskas (Staska), Mindaugas Papinigis, and Russian actor Artur Smolianinov. Vinnie Jones as Golden Pole, the antagonist, worked his sequences as a contained role rather than as one of the marquee-on-screen-throughout fixtures.
In memoriam — Vytautas Šapranauskas (1958–2013)
The single most significant production fact about Redirected, for the Lithuanian context, is that it became Vytautas Šapranauskas's final film. He died on 18 April 2013 — one day before his 55th birthday — before the film reached its January 2014 Lithuanian premiere. The production carries an on-screen dedication. The finished film's framing of his scenes, and the marketing's careful handling of his presence, reflects the production's awareness that it was releasing a posthumous performance of one of the country's most beloved actors.
Score
The music was composed for the production by Lithuanian composers Domas Strupinskas and Paulius Kilbauskas rather than tracked from existing material. This gave the film a coherent sonic identity through the shifts between London, Vilnius, and rural Lithuania, and meant that the score could be tuned for the road-movie pacing and the comic-action register Vėlyvis required.
Post-production
Post-production was completed in Lithuania, with sound and colour finished in Vilnius — part of how the tax-incentive arrangement worked economically and part of how the Lithuanian production infrastructure was being developed at the time. The film's sound design makes substantial use of ambient Lithuanian-language radio and television in the background of scenes, both for verisimilitude and for the running joke that the British leads cannot understand any of it.
Release and distribution
The film premiered in Lithuania on 10 January 2014. Within weeks, it had taken approximately $1.8 million at the Lithuanian box office and pulled close to 300,000 admissions — breaking the country's all-time records at the time. The UK release followed on 13 November 2014, with continental European releases rolling out across the same period. Worldwide box office outside Lithuania was approximately $333,000, primarily across the UK and selected European markets.
The home-video release followed within the year, with streaming licensing developing later as the film entered the catalogues of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and various continental platforms — exposure that has periodically been refreshed in the decade since. See our home release page for current platform availability.