First Image from Ben Wheatley’s HIGH RISE Featuring Tom Hiddleston

This morning Empire revealed the first image from Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers) latest, High Rise, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Luke Evans, and Stacy Martin, and is adapted from a novel by Crash author J.G. Ballard. Above, you’ll see Hiddleston brooding in the elevator of what one could assume is said high rise.

The film takes a look at the tenants in this luxury apartment building who, after a breakdown in class and social structure, descend into madness and violence against on another.

High Rise doesn’t have a distributor as of yet, but I would expect to see this hitting the festival circuit very soon.

Here’s the synopsis:

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.

A disturbing vision from the director of Kill List, this action-packed thriller depicts society’s most chilling nightmares.