Trailer Emerges from Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise
John Squires
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Director Ben Wheatley’s (Kill List, Sightseers) latest is an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1975 sci-fi novel High-Rise, and following a premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the first trailer has finally arrived. We’ve been waiting on this one, and we think you have too. Dig it!
Scripted by Amy Jump, the film stars Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, Crimson Peak), Jeremy Irons (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Sienna Miller (American Sniper), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), and Elizabeth Moss (“Mad Men”). It chronicles the savage breakdown of social order inside a giant residential apartment block.
Synopsis:
High-Rise stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife, Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal (Irons), the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble, and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
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