player of Joy Division. Toby Kebbell as Rob Gretton, the manager of the band, succeeding Terry Mason. Kebbell provides humour and a lighter angle to the film. Craig Parkinson as Tony Wilson, the owner of Factory Records, the company that distributes Joy Division's recordings. James Anthony Pearson as Bernard Sumner, the guitarist and keyboardist of Joy Division. Harry Treadaway as Stephen Morris, the drummer and percussionist of Joy Division. Andrew Sheridan as Terry Mason, the manager of the band before the arrival of Rob Gretton, and tour manager of the band from then on Robert Shelly as Twinny, the roadie of the band. Matthew McNulty as Nick Jackson, Ian's high school friend. The fictional character corresponds to Ian's real life friend Tony Nuttall, who did not give permission to Anton Corbijn to use his name. Ben Naylor as Martin Hannett, producer and co-founder of Factory Records with Tony Wilson. John Cooper Clarke as himself, a British performance poet who composes punk style works. In the film he performs his poem "Evidently Chickentown" in a re-creation of a 1970s concert. Lotti Closs as Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris' girlfriend. Herbert Grönemeyer portrays a Public GP in a cameo. Richard Bremmer as Kevin Curtis, Ian's father. Mary Jo Randle as Deborah Curtis' mother. Production Corbijn had been a devout Joy Division fan since the band's early days in the late 1970s. After moving to England, he befriended the band and shot several pictures for NME, which boosted his career as a photographer. Some of his pictures taken are featured in the film. He also directed the music video for the 1988 rerelease of "Atmosphere". He said that the film overlapped with his own life in some ways. "I had moved to England to be close to that music at the time, and I was very into Joy Division. I worked with them, took pictures of them that became synonymous with their music, and I was forever linked. Then eight years after [Ian Curtis'] death, I did the video for "Atmosphere." So in other people's eyes I was always connected with them." Control is Corbijn's debut as a film director, and he paid half of the €4.5 million budget out of his own pocket. The film was shot on colour stock and printed to black and white to "reflect the atmosphere of Joy Division and the mood of the era". Todd Eckert and Orian