TRAILER: Kill Your Friends

Wired recaps:

After years of being directly next to the leading man conversation, Nicholas Hoult is making a play in 2015 to be the conversation. He was excellent in Mad Max: Fury Road and in the last quarter of 2015 he’ll be front and center in three movies, one of which is Kill Your Friends. Friends is based on the novel of the same name by John Niven, and it’s a music industry satire set in late 1990s London when Britpop rock bands were doing huge business all over the world. Before writing the book, Niven (who also wrote the screenplay) briefly worked in A&R for a record label, and this is his lambasting of all the backstabbing and fame-whoring and miscellaneous indulgence he apparently observed during that time. Our protagonist is Steven Stelfox (Hoult), and he seems to be everything awful you’d expect—a Patrick Bateman of the music industry, if you will. More than anything it looks like a great chance for Hoult to show us what else he’s been keeping up his well-tailored sleeves.

Keep an eye out for James Corden.