Matt Smith Joining Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho

Thomasin McKenzie is also in talks to join the film, which is slated to begin production this summer.

By Chris Morse
February 22 2019, 10:20 PM EST

The cast of Last Night in Soho, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s upcoming psychological horror-thriller, continues to grow with a new report that a pair of stars are in talks to join the upcoming film. Via Variety, sources say that the Doctor Who alumnus Matt Smith and Leave No Trace’s Thomasin McKenzie are set to join the project, which is expected to begin filming this summer.

Apart from three seasons as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who, Smith also received an Emmy nomination for playing Prince Philip in Netflix’s The Crown. In addition to Leave No Trace, McKenzie also played a role in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and will soon appear in Netflix’s Lost Girls.

Last Night in Soho will star Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass, Split), Matt Smith (Doctor Who, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), and Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies). No other cast members have been listed at this time, but we expect that to change in the coming weeks and months as the project moves ahead.

The film will be a psychological horror-thriller set in central London, inspired by the likes of Don’t Look Now and Roman Polanski's Repulsion. Wright will direct a screenplay he co-wrote alongside Penny Dreadful writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The film does not yet have a release date, but it is expected to release in 2020 with production slated to begin this summer. Stay tuned to Dead Entertainment for all the latest news and updates on this project as it comes together.

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Thanks to his friends and family, Chris grew up surrounded by plenty of horror movies and video games. From self-taught web design as a teenager to a formal education in computer science, he has always had a passion for web technologies and has channeled all of those interests into building this website platform. Chris opted to dive straight into horror with this project and is joined by some of those very same influential friends and family here on the staff. When not programming or gaming, you can find him heading to the midwest to cheer on his favorite football team, the Green Bay Packers. Go Pack Go!