Ben Wheatley’s High Rise acquired by Magnet Releasing

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have acquired U.S. rights to HIGH-RISE, the new film from KILL LIST director Ben Wheatley. HIGH-RISE stars Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Elizabeth Moss.

Based on J.G. Ballard’s book…

HIGH-RISE stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal (Irons), the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.

HIGH-RISE will be released in 2016; no specific date has been set as of now.