Nymphomaniac star Stacy Martin has been cast in Ben Wheatley’s High Rise, reports Screen Daily. Martin joins the growing cast that already includes Tom Hiddleston, Elisabeth Moss, Luke Evans, Sienna Miller, and Jeremy Irons.
The film is based on J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel of the same name, which various people in the industry have been trying to adapt for decades. In the novel, the occupants of a high rise apartment building become isolated from the outside world and gradually descend into a brutal, primal society. It’s like Lord of the Flies with adults rather than kids, pitting the wealthy on the building’s top floors against the middle class lower dwellers. No word yet on who the 23-year-old Martin will be playing.
The screenplay was penned by Amy Jump, Wheatley’s regular collaborator and shooting is scheduled to begin in July in Belfast.
