lay eyes on the very first look at Tom Hiddleston in the movie adaptation of J.G. Ballard ’s High Rise . But is this before or after everyone inside this mythological luxury building has gone completely insane ?
Thanks toEmpire , we now have the first spirit at director Ben Wheatley ’s High wage increase adaptation . agree to Empire , Hiddleston is play the anti - hero Dr Robert Laing . And yes , even Hiddleston will be pay into his more “ animalistic pulse , ” eventually “ turn the building into a bacchanalian den of wickedness . ” Oh man , it ’s time to re - read High Rise .
The Koran is centered around a gigantic ( and totally sequester from society ) high climb building . Inside this skyscraper is a whole slew of masses , workshop , condominium , pool , basically anything you require , at least if you live in the right-hand part of the building and you have the means . But beneath the glazed exterior of the high rise a class warfare is brew , and eventually a very , very , very bloody engagement breaks out between the upper , middle and lower levels of residents . This book is DARK and violent . And the movie aims to keep it that style AND it ’s also go to keep it limit in the ’ 70 ! In ourlast audience with Wheatley , he unveil that his adaptation will be set in 1975 :
Yeah , well , I intend it ’s cash in one’s chips to look like the ’ 70s . It ’s hold up to be very styled in that way . We ’re look at the Ridley Scott adverts of that period . It ’s going to be modern in a style that the ’ 70 look . In a way that , “ I do n’t make out what the hereafter take care like any longer , ” which is quite peculiar . We ’re already in Buck Rogers land now . Are n’t we ? We ’ve all got phone , it ’s not that exciting . But back then they had a genuine estimation of what the future tense was break to be like , and it was much more stylish .
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