Nicholas Hoult has been climbing up the Hollywood ladder with the likes of X-Men and Jack The Giant Slayer, but now he’s coming back to Britain, as Deadline reports that he and Jim Piddock have signed up for Kill Your Friends, about the 1990s Britpop scene.
The film is about ‘an A&R man (X-Mens Nicholas Hoult) during the Britpop music wave of the late 90s who goes to extremes to find the next hit. Piddock, a frequent Christopher Guest player, will play Derek Sommers, the managing director of the record label.’
Owen Harris (Holy Flying Circus) is set to direct. John Niven wrote the script, based on his novel of the same name.