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Oct 29, 2021 · Last Night in Soho: Directed by Edgar Wright. With Thomasin McKenzie, Aimee Cassettari, Rita Tushingham, Colin Mace. Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to return to 1960s London, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Edgar Wright
- 2021-10-29
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Eloise "Ellie" Turner loves the music and fashion of the Swinging Sixtiesand dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her mother, also a designer, killed herself during Ellie's childhood. Ellie occasionally sees her mother's ghost in mirrors. Ellie moves from her rural home near Redruth, Cornwall to London to study at the London College of Fashion, w...
Thomasin McKenzieas Eloise "Ellie" TurnerMatt Smithas JackDevelopment
Edgar Wright first conceived the idea for Last Night in Soho in 2007. He pitched the plot, as a "dark valentine" to London and the Soho neighbourhood, to producers Nira Park and Rachel Prior before the start of filming for The World's End(2013). Growing up in Somerset, Wright listened to his parents' stories of coming of age in the 1960s, which contributed to his becoming enamoured with the era. He nurtured his obsession through their 1960s record collection, saying he would "sort of almost j...
Writing
Filmmaker Sam Mendes first introduced Wright to screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who later co-wrote 1917 (2019) with Mendes. Wilson-Cairns told Wright in passing that she had worked as a bartender at The Toucan in Soho for five years and lived around the corner, above The Sunset Strip on Dean Street. On the night of the Brexit vote in 2016, they went on a bar crawl through the basement bars of Soho, ending up at one called Trisha's, where Wright pitched her the story of Last Night In Soho....
Casting
Wright became aware of Anya Taylor-Joy when he was on the US Dramatic Jury at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where The Witch premiered. He met Taylor-Joy in Los Angeles shortly afterward, where he pitched her the story for Last Night in Soho. He initially had Taylor-Joy in mind for the role of Eloise but later came around to the idea of her playing Sandie, and she agreed after reading a draft of the script. Taylor-Joy's casting was announced in February 2019, and Thomasin McKenzie and Matt...
Some of the songs inspired sequences in the film. When Wright heard a cover version of "Wade In The Water" by the Graham Bond Organisation, he "would just start imagining that first dream". Cilla Black's "You're My World" with its dramatic strings conjured up "the sort of the tone and the mood". Most of the songs selected were from the 1960s. Wrigh...
Last Night in Soho premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2021. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021 and at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival on 10 September 2021. Its UK premiere was on 9 October 2021 at the BFI London Film Festival, prior to its general releas...
Box office
As at 26 December 2021 Last Night in Soho has grossed $23.1million. In Canada and US it was released alongside Antlers and the expansion of The French Dispatch, and was projected to gross around $5 million from 3,016 cinemas in its opening weekend. It made $1.9 million on its first day and went on to debut to $4.2 million, finishing sixth at the box office.In its second weekend it dropped 57% to gross $1.8 million, finishing tenth.
Critical response
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Oct 29, 2021 · Last Night in Soho is a move away from Wright’s previous genre pieces: he’s mastered the West Country comedy in Hot Fuzz and the comedy-horror Shaun of the Dead and At World’s End (his Cornetto trilogy). Even his Sparks documentary released earlier this year is a foray into a more informative style.
Nov 7, 2021 · Edgar Wright's latest movie is nostalgia trip through London starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin Mckenzie. Here's what audiences thought about the movie.
Last Night in Soho is a 2021 British psychological horror film directed and co-produced by Edgar Wright, and co-written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns. It stars Thomasin McKenzie as a naive teenager who moves to London to study fashion design ; there she is haunted by visions of Sandie (played by Anya Taylor-Joy ), a glamorous young woman ...
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Sep 5, 2021 · Edgar Wright, best known for hybrid comedies such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and the crime thriller Baby Driver, continues to play around with genres in Last Night in Soho, a nostalgic...
