It’s taken over 30 years for the film adaptation of the JG Ballard novel, High-Rise, to be made. Directed by Ben Wheatley (The ABCs of Death, Doctor Who), the dystopian science fiction takes place in the 1970s and focuses on class warfare within a modern, luxury high rise. The building is filled to the brim with every modern convenience a well to do tenant could dream of; swimming pool, supermarket, elementary school and high speed elevators. Can life in an isolated concrete tower really be that perfect?

Luke Evans

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Read  the official synopsis below:

London, 1975.

A slick apartment tower rises above the Thames, the beginnings of what will soon become the world’s biggest financial hub.Dominating the landscape, it is simply called the HIGH-RISE… its address a mark of exclusivity.Its newest resident is Robert Laing, an ambitious young doctor utterly seduced by the lifestyle and cutting-edge technology the high-rise has to offer.

Laing meets Wilder, a charismatic provocateur who introduces him to the seedy underbelly of the high-rise. The cracks in this apparently flawless society grow rapidly, and Laing is shocked at the depravity he sees. Life in the high-rise quickly descends into madness and violence, and Laing finds himself amongst the marauding hordes of bloodthirsty tenants who take over the building, floor by floor.

 

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Coming soon, March 2016, High-Rise stars Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, Luke Evans as Richard Wilder, Jeremy Irons as Anthony Royal, Elizabeth Moss as Helen Wilder and Sienna Miller as Charlotte Melville.