Kill Your Friends trailer
The first Kill Your Friends trailer has just gone live. Nicholas Hoult stars in the adaptation of John Niven‘s novel of the same name, which will arrive in cinemas this November.
Here’s the brief plot.
[quote_box_center]Based on John Niven’s best-selling novel, and starring Nicholas Hoult as you’ve never seen him before, Kill Your Friends is a jet-black comedy about a music executive at the height of the Britpop era who will stop at nothing to further his career.[/quote_box_center]
The movie will actually debut at the Toronto Film Festival next month, and looks like a blend of Trainspotting and American Psycho. Dark, dark, dark!
Here’s the Kill Your Friends trailer courtesy of the folk over at Studio Canal. Looks bloody brutal does this. Ed Skrein, Rosanna Arquette, and James Corden also star.
Kill Your Friends arrives in UK cinemas on the 6th November.
Kill Your Friends trailer
Full synopsis below.
[quote_box_center]London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, Radiohead rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit chasing A&R man Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult) is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where ‘no one knows anything’ and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public – “Yeah, those animals”.
Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the concept of ‘killer tunes’ to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.
Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the Nineties music business. A time and place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers; where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved – as long as you want it badly enough.[/quote_box_center]
