One of Hollywood’s hottest rising young stars, actress Anya Taylor-Joy has bagged one of the leads in Edgar Wright’s next movie, a thriller called, “Last Night In Soho.” Taylor-Joy came to fame in Robert Eggers’ Sundance horror “The Witch,” and is coming off serious acclaim for the black comedy “Thoroughbreds,” her lead role in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split,” and its recent sequel “Glass.”
Few details have been revealed, but Wright himself recently revealed the movie was a psychological horror-thriller along the lines of Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion” and Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now,” which land squarely in that hybrid genre.
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“I realized I had never made a film about central London – specifically Soho, somewhere I’ve spent a huge amount of time in the last 25 years,” Wright said recently. “With ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ you make movies about places you’ve lived in. This movie is about the London I’ve existed in.”
Wright co-wrote the script with “Penny Dreadful” writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns penned the script for the movie, and it will be yet another a Focus and Working Title co-production for Wright.
Wright has been developing several projects including a sequel to 2017’s “Baby Driver,” the script of which is apparently done, but “Last Night In Soho” is next and production is expected to start this summer in London.
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Wright also has the project “Grasshopper Jungle” gestating with New Regency, and at one point, he’d been writing a live-action/animated adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s “Fortunately, The Milk” with Johnny Depp to star, but it’s unclear the state of that latter project post-Depp-scandal.