Kill List director Ben Wheatley’s next film might just be his most exciting yet as he teams up with Tom Hiddleston for a big screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard novel High-Rise. The Avengers Assemble and Thor: The Dark World star plays Dr. Robert Laing in the movie, and the first official image has now been released.
The rest of the cast is equally impressive, with names like Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), Jeremy Irons (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), and Sienna Miller (American Sniper).
Set in 1975, High-Rise documents the shocking breakdown of class and social structures within a brand-new high-tech London apartment building as its residents, including Laing (Hiddleston), slowly give in to their more animalistic impulses, turning the building into a bacchanalian den of iniquity. Sounds interesting!
This will be Wheatley’s first film for two years (though he has been busy with Doctor Who to be fair). He will be joined for High-Rise by writer Amy Jump and producer Jeremy Thomas, making this all the more exciting.
Idris Elba revealed last year – much to the annoyance of director Joss Whedon – that both he and Tom Hiddleston will be in Avengers: Age of Ultron, so that’s where we’ll next see the British actor.
