The adaptation of J.G. Ballard's High Rise has been stuck in development hell for years, but last year, Kill List director Ben Wheatley signed on to become the project's latest director. The 1975 novel "takes place in a tower block, which is supposed to be a gleaming new, exciting and exotic home for its affluent residents, but ends up isolating and factionalizing them into all-out war, with the surface sophistication degenerating to primal savagery." Today, Wheatley announced on his Twitter page that production will begin in June, and the film will star Tom Hiddleston. Hit the …
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