There are not one but two Edgar Wright films on the horizon. Less than two weeks after Focus Features dropped the trailer for The Sparks Brothers, the filmmaker’s documentary about L.A. new wave band Sparks, the studio has released the official trailer for Last Night in Soho. Set to an eerie cover of Petula Clark’s “Downtown” performed by star Anya Taylor-Joy, the trailer for Wright’s psychological thriller teases a young would-be fashion designer’s (Leave No Trace’s Thomasin McKenzie) arrival in the hedonistic London of the Swinging Sixties, where she encounters her idol, a wannabe singer played by Taylor-Joy. But, according to the distributor’s official description, “1960s London is not what it appears, and time seems to fall apart with shady consequences…”
The film, written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns (who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated script for 1917), also stars Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao, Synnøve Karlsen, and, in her final on-screen performance, Dame Diana Rigg.
See the trailer below:
Focus Features will release Last Night in Soho on October 22.
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