Two new images for Ben Wheatley's latest film "High Rise" have been released. "Kill List" director Wheatley is working with Tom Hiddleston for a film adaptation based on J.G. Ballard's novel with the same title.
The new "High-Rise" images show Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, and Elisabeth Moss as they appear in the film. The new shots of Hiddleston are ominous and mysterious to a certain extent, compared to the firsts wherein he looks like his life is pretty together.
After two and a half years of hiatus from the big screen production, Wheatley comes back with "High Rise" which is said to be his hotly anticipated motion picture. It is an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian satire about the inhabitants of a luxury tower block built in Thatcher's England.
Set in 1975, a young Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) joins this community in a luxury building. This building has the conveniences and commodities that modern life has to offer. The building seems to isolate the occupants from the outside world. It allowed them to create their own closed environment and eventually be divided into violent division of social classes.
There is no trailer yet, since a firm release plan in the UK is not announced, and there is still no U.S distributor. The film will premier in Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S held each year at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. It will also be in the 59th BFI London Film Festival for its Empire's own UK premiere festival gala screening. The film plays on October 9 and 11 at the Odeon, Leicester Square.
Screenplay for "High Rise" is written by Amy Jump and produced by Jeremy Thomas. Clint Mansell provides the score, and Laurie Rose acted as cinematographer. With Tom Hiddleston in the lead, he is joined by Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, James Purefoy and Elisabeth Moss.
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