Last Night in Soho trailer shows off Edgar Wright’s time-twisting 1960s psychological thriller

After a year of secrecy, we finally have our first glimpse of Edgar Wright’s next film, Last Night in Soho. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy (fresh off making chess cool in The Queen’s Gambit) and Thomas McKenzie, Last Night in Soho is a time-twisting ’60s psychological thriller and marks Wright’s first film since Baby Driver in 2017. Last Night in Soho was initially scheduled for release in 2020 but was pushed back due to the pandemic.

The rather opaque official synopsis reads: “Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller about a young girl, passionate in fashion design, who is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it appears, and time seems to fall apart with shady consequences…”

Last Night in Soho also stars Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham, and Terrence Stamp.

Wright, best known for his action-comedy mashups like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, has hinted that Last Night in Soho is unlike any of his other films to date. In a recent interview with Empire, he stated:

“It will feel very different to my other films. But I’ve always liked films which have a slow burn into something else, and a lot of my movies have that feeling. Last Night starts in a more psychological realm and then starts to get increasingly intense as it goes along. And I always like to gravitate towards making a film in genres I miss, and there’s a certain type of psychological horror film that you got more in the ’60s and ’70s that have something of an operatic nature. I’m using that kind of visual grammar.”

Check out the trailer below. Focus Features will release Last Night in Soho in theatres on October 22.

If you need to get your Edgar Wright fix in before that (and who doesn’t?), Focus Features is releasing his great documentary The Sparks Brothers, focused on the idiosyncratic pop duo Sparks, in theatres on June 18. You can find our review of the insightful and often hilarious doc here.