Edgar Wright adds Matt Smith, Leave No Trace's Thomasin McKenzie to his new one, Last Night In Soho
Aux Features FilmEdgar Wright’s newest feature now has a The Doctor in the house—sorry, sorry, we’ll stop—with Complex reporting today that Matt Smith and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie have both signed on for Wright’s new thriller Last Night In Solo. Wright has been pretty closed-mouthed about what his Baby Driver follow-up will be about, but he has let a few details slip: The film will apparently jump between a 1960s setting and modern day, with Smith’s character acting as a “manager”—type undetermined, so that’s exciting—in the ’60s bits for the previously cast Anya Taylor-Joy.
McKenzie, meanwhile, will star in the modern segments, where she’ll be playing a “fashion student.” The young actress gained national recognition last year with her performance in Debra Granik’s survival thriller Leave No Trace; she also just finished filming on fellow New Zealander Taiki Waititi’s upcoming Jojo Rabbit.
We’re obviously huge fans of Wright’s output, so it’s exciting to see him assembling a cast of some of the most rapidly rising performers working right now—Taylor-Joy is on an incredible hot streak at the moment, and Smith, hot off a Star Wars, isn’t doing so bad himself. Still, we’re waiting to get a basic logline for the movie; “psychological thriller” is a pretty wide area for a genre hound like Wright to mine.
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Isn’t Last Night In Solo one of those Star Wars pornos?
I came here to make a joke about how the impossibly old-fashioned name of the lead character from The Witch had already somehow resurfaced on an actress and then it turns out this movie has fictional Thomasin too. Weird.
And/or VVeird
Wright’s new thriller Last Night In Solo. I think that’s last night in Soho, otherwise I’m afraid you’ve downloaded the wrong Star Wars movie.Coincidentally (or is it?), the film shares its title with a track by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
Come back in a week or so, and you KNOW they won’t have fixed their blunder.
Well, I was right. It’s still wrong.
Title of Han’s sex tape.
I like Anya Taylor-Joy in general, but how exactly is she “on an incredible hot streak right now?”
Per IMDB she’s got credits on seven upcoming films and two tv series, and as a lead in a number of them. She’s also shifted from indie originals to films based on existing IPs and with more established directors. So it seems safe to say she’s in demand.
Agreed, but that’s not what is generally being referenced when saying an actor is on a hot streak. Usually that means that their recent run of projects has been highly successful and/or plentiful, neither of which hers has exactly been.
The Witch and Thoroughbreds were both very well reviewed and Split was a crowd-pleasing semi-cult film that spawned a sequel.
Yes, but Morgan was terrible, Glass was widely panned, and she was also apparently in some flop called Marrowbone. That’s more of a hit or miss streak than an incredible hot streak.
Fair point, but The VVitch and Thoroughbreds were both really, really good, and she was excellent in both, and for an actor who’s only been in the game for a few years…
Unfortunately New Mutants looks like it may never see the light of day, but Thoroughbreds was in a lot of top 10 lists for the reviewers on this site and she’s in Glass, for somebody her age who has only been notable for two or three years that’s a pretty good start (and her name in The VVitch was “Thomasin”), she was an extra in 2014!But really with AV Club they mean a casting tear, that’s still a hot streak as far as this site is concerned, and in her case well-deserved, she has at least three projects in the can and she’s the lead in Kristin Scott-Thomas’s directorial debut, that’s pretty hot.I hate Matt Smith’s foam face that is all
Matt
Smith is a highly successful actor.You’d
think he’d be able to afford a decent pair of eyebrows.
For those not familiar with Soho, it’s long been the centre of porn, sex shops, strip clubs and LGBT clubs in London.Might hint to what type of establishment Matt Smith’s character will be managing.
I keep seeing Matt Smith being cast in all these projects but for the life of me I can’t seem to recall him ever being in a movie that actually get released.
he’s the villain in Ryan Reynolds’ directorial debut Lost River, which is a weirdly unappreciated and stacked (casting-wise) flick
did you do that on purpose 😀
Everything about this sounds phenomenal so far