One of Britain's greatest filmmakers is set to start work on a brand new movie this summer - and it's something a little unexpected. While we're used to comedy thrillers from Edgar Wright, his next film is being described as a psychological thriller with influences from two classic horror films.
Edgar Wright at the BFI London Film Festival 2018 / Photo Credit: Tom Rose/Famous
His Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy featuring Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End will always be Edgar Wright's magnum opus, but after American action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and, of course, crime comedy Baby Driver, we know he's not a one-trick-pony.
Which is why we're so excited for his next film. We're not expecting another comedy; indeed, Wright has confessed that it's more of a psychological horror this time round sharing themes from 1973's Don't Look Now and 1965's Repulsion.
If you haven't seen either of those films, you need to change that. The former follows a couple with a recently deceased young daughter who move to Venice and meet some very strange and macabre characters on the way, while the latter - directed by Roman Polanski - is about a woman with an extreme aversion to all things sexual who starts having psychotic delusions of rape and violence.
It's unclear what elements the untitled Edgar Wright project will share from those movies but, like Repulsion, it will have a female lead. Plus, for the first time, Wright will be setting his movie in the Soho area of London.
"I realised I had never made a film about central London - specifically Soho, somewhere I've spent a huge amount of time in the last 25 years", Wright said in an interview with Empire. "With Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead you make movies about places you've lived in. This movie is about the London I've existed in."
This suggests that the film will also be set in the present, or at least the very recent past. Aside from that, there's really not much more we can speculate on. It will be interesting to see whether or not it will include any comedic elements at all; we're not saying Wright can't do serious, of course, we just haven't really seen it yet.
Wright will be directing the film as well as co-writing the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns who previously worked on period horror series Penny Dreadful. She's also currently working on two projects with Sam Mendes - 1917 and The Voyeur's Motel - as well as an adaptation of Charles Graeber's true crime book The Good Nurse which is rumoured to be starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
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