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17 Sep

Edgar Wright Is Bored With ‘Endless Oxygen Taken Up By Talk of Streaming’

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Last Night in Soho is finally being released at the end of October. In theaters. It’s the culmination of a long road for the movie’s singular writer-director, Edgar Wright, and one he’s had a hand in personally guiding. When we sat down to talk with Wright in August, the director behind such electric classics as Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and the bonafide blockbuster Baby Driver tells us he’s been championing an October 2021 release date for some time, believing his first full-throated horror movie would have its best chance to be seen in a cinema…

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14 Sep

Edgar Wright on Ghosts, Musicals, and Last Night in Soho

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Edgar Wright is trying to cure himself. That’s how the writer-director describes his latest movie Last Night in Soho: a cure for the nostalgia that’s followed him all his life, and which still causes him to daydream against his better judgment about 1960s London as if it were a golden age. “I have this recurring time travel fantasy about the idea of going back,” Wright says with the air of a confession. “But I think it’s always that thing, this nagging fear that it’s probably a really bad idea.” It’s a surprising admission for a filmmaker who has spent his…

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11 Sep

Last Night in Soho Review: Edgar Wright Horror Movie Haunted with ’60s Style

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The incredible trailer for Last Night in Soho dropped in the middle of the pandemic like an oasis in a desert for cinema-starved folks longing for bold, original films. Looking back, it seemed impossible that Edgar Wright’s latest creation would be able to live up to the impossibly high standards set for it. But Last Night in Soho manages to be part charming and part chilling in its exploration of a very specific 1960s, giallo-inspired aesthetic. It’s a kaleidoscopic flurry of colors and images, and even as it perhaps loses the thread when it’s asked to make sense of itself,…

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25 May

Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho Could Be the Giallo Horror We Wanted from Suspiria

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The new trailer for Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho begins with Thomasin McKenzie staring at a marquee billboard for Sean Connery’s fifth James Bond movie, Thunderball. For both her and audiences, it immediately lets us know we’ve been transported into a distant—and often romanticized—past. Yet instead of Bond, the actual tone of auteur Wright’s new film evokes an entirely different style: one as trippy as the fractured image of Anya Taylor-Joy staring back at McKenzie in the mirror. Last Night in Soho has been the long anticipated and mysterious thriller Wright and Focus Features have been teasing out for…

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30 Jan

Edgar Wright Brings the Sparks Brothers Story to the Mainstream in New Documentary

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With the advent of the internet, it’s become easier for musicians to infiltrate the mainstream. That band you loved when you were in high school but no one else in town heard of? You know, the one that was your hidden secret only shared with your closest friends? Now you can give out a streaming link to their music or get their permission to use that song you love on YouTube. Everyone knows them. Especially if they’ve been recording since 1970, had 25 studio albums, and are still playing to this day. So how come you probably don’t know about…

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10 Sep

The Boys Season 2: Giancarlo Esposito on the Hidden Power of Stan Edgar

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This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2 One of the major lingering questions when it comes to The Boys’ main offenders is the true role of Vought International CEO Stan Edgar. So far, the character has been played calmly and deliberately by Giancarlo Esposito, who is still best known for his major villain roles as Gustavo “Gus” Fring in Breaking Bad and Moff Gideon in Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. But you’d be forgiven for wondering why he’d sign up for a role on the popular Amazon comic book series as…

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26 Jul

Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro Want to Make Edgar Allan Poe Movie

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The current pandemic has brought many industries to a standstill, moviemaking included. Scott Cooper might tell you as much considering he has several projects on the backburner—two nondescript movies with Christian Bale and another with Elisabeth Moss—yet he isn’t sure which will get made next in the current climate. Even his last movie, horror-thriller Antlers, was supposed to be released already. Yet it was while talking about that latest one, alongside producer Guillermo del Toro, during a virtual Comic-Con@Home panel that Cooper revealed his dream project: a movie about young Edgar Allan Poe’s time at West Point. To be clear,…

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18 Jun

Edgar Wright and Jane Goldman to Adapt The Chain

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As Hollywood seems to be slowly waking back to life this summer while the coronavirus pandemic rages on, new projects are being lined up even as finished ones continue to be delayed. Look no further than Edgar Wright, whose next movie, the cryptic time travel chiller, Last Night in Soho, has been pushed from September to April 2021. Even so, he’s worked out with Universal Pictures a new project that sounds incredibly intriguing: he’s adapting Adrian McKinty’s The Chain. In a move that partners Wright for the first time with screenwriter Jane Goldman, the genre maestro who’s worked on the…

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26 May

Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho Moved to April 2021

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It appears we must wait a little longer to experience Edgar Wright’s first serious foray into horror. Indeed, the genre hopping writer-director took to Twitter Tuesday to confirm Last Night in Soho is now slated for a release date in April 2021. “Haunted by someone else’s past, but we’ll see you in the future,” Wright began teasing the plot of the movie. “It’s true. #LastNightinSoho is not quite finished yet due to Covid 19. But, I’m excited for you all to experience it, at a big screen near you, on April 23, 2021.” The news while not shocking is another…

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