Richard Ayoade impressed many when he turned from comedy actor to director with Submarine. Now he’s got his follow-up coming, which is perhaps a little more ambitious as it stars Jesse Eisenberg and if based on a story by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Dostoyevsky’s tale isabout a Russian government clerk whose life unravels when what he believes is a doppelganger of himself who has the same name and history begins working in his office.The film hasbeen described as Fight Club for bureaucrats’. Ayoade has promised something funny, frightening and dream-like, a reflection on loneliness and our need to be loved.
Now we can take our first look with a 90-second trailer. It’s due out in the UK on April 4th.