Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho will be a disturbing acid trip

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and BABY DRIVER director Edgar Wright's first true horror film LAST NIGHT IN SOHO starring Anya Taylor-Joy (THE WITCH, GLASS) will be hitting this September. And today, Taylor-Jopy talked a bit about the movie calling it a "really well-directed acid trip."

Specifically, she said:

Not to say much about the movie, but when I watch bits of it back in ADR or whatever I am disturbed. It’s very claustrophobic. The colors are so intense. It’s a really well-directed acid trip. I think people will really like it. You definitely will not be bored.

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As for working with Wright, the actress said:

The man loves cinema. He loves any art form. It’s so fun to talk music with him. He just knows everything. I don’t know how he fits it all in his head. I loved it. As a dancer, he’s big on choreography, and things happen on beats. It’s not quite to the level of Baby Driver where you’re coordinating exact car chases to the beats of the music, but I sort of act in beats in my head. I count those out for myself, and he says them out loud. So it’s wonderful to do that.

Officially influenced by the likes of DON'T LOOK NOW and REPULSION, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO is written by Wright and Penny Dreadful's Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The film doesn't have an official synopsis at this time, but Wright has said this about the story:

I realised 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. 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.

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He added:

There’s something I have in common with the lead character in that I’m afflicted with nostalgia for a decade I didn’t live in. You think about ‘60s London – what would that be like? Imagine if you knew everything you knew now, and went back. I’m taking a premise whereby you have a character who, in a sort of abstract way, gets to travel in time. And the reality of the decade is maybe not what she imagines. It has an element of ‘be careful what you wish for’.

Joining Taylor-Joy are former Doctor Who Matt Smith (TERMINATOR: GENISYS) and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (LEAVE NO TRACE, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES). The film is being co-financed by Focus Features and Film4. Wright is producing with Nira Park, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. Focus Features and Universal Pictures International will be handling the distribution. It hits on September 25th, 2020.