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Edgar Wright has begun pro­duc­tion on his next feature

29 May 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

Three men standing in a room, two wearing black and one wearing a light jacket, gesturing and speaking to one another.
Three men standing in a room, two wearing black and one wearing a light jacket, gesturing and speaking to one another.
The writer/director’s psy­cho­log­i­cal hor­ror, Last Night in Soho, stars Anya Tay­lor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie.

If Edgar Wright still plans on mak­ing that Baby Dri­ver sequel he’d men­tioned back in 2017, it’s been put on the back burn­er for the time being. Because today brings news that he’s start­ed pro­duc­tion on a new film with an orig­i­nal con­cept, not a dri­ving baby in sight.

Empire notes that Wright has launched prin­ci­pal pho­tog­ra­phy on his new film Last Night in Soho, said to be in the vein of psy­cho­log­i­cal hor­ror. On his Insta­gram account, Wright post­ed a pho­to of a clap­per con­firm­ing that thing are now up and run­ning, along with the reveal that the film will be shot by Park Chan-wook​’s reg­u­lar cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er Chung-hoon Chung.

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While Wright has been play­ing it char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly qui­et with details, he has dis­closed that Anya Tay­lor-Joy will lead the film, along with Leave No Trace break­out Thomasin McKen­zie and for­mer Doc­tor Who star Matt Smith. He’s also let slip that the Soho referred to in the title will indeed be the famed Lon­don neigh­bor­hood, a bustling hub of enter­tain­ment and commerce.

Per­haps most tan­ta­liz­ing­ly of all, Wright has said that Nico­las Roeg​’s Don’t Look Now and Roman Polan­s­ki​’s Repul­sion as his two pri­ma­ry inspi­ra­tions on the film. Those two titles promise some­thing stranger and dark­er than we’ve seen from Wright as of late, and bet­ter yet, we won’t have to wait much longer to get eyes on it.

To whet your appetite fur­ther, here’s a look at the teas­er poster, its stark, lurid neon a nice styl­is­tic mark­er of things to come. Bring on the urban sleaze.

Neon sign with "LAST NIGHT IN SOHO" text on green background, silhouettes of two people's heads.

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