Exclusive First Look At Nicholas Hoult In Kill Your Friends 

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Exclusive First Look At Nicholas Hoult In Kill Your Friends

One of our fastest rising young actors, Nicholas Hoult mainlined Mad Max: Fury Road with crazed energy as the shiny, chrome-faced Nux. He has X-Men: Apocalypse and Eran Creevy’s intriguing Autobahn on his dance card, but before either of those, Kill Your Friends will offer a showcase for his talents for black comedy. Here's a first look at him as Steven Stelfox in the upcoming adaptation of John Niven’s ‘90s-set novel, courtesy of the nice people at StudioCanal.

Set in the murky, often chemically enhanced world of the music industry circa the Britpop era, Kill Your Friends follows Hoult’s A&R man as he rides the Cool Britannia wave through its Blur vs Oasis high point and down a deep, dark hole. A sort of Filth or American Psycho for the music biz? Maybe. It’s just possible that Stelfox is as lacking in the milk of human kindness as Patrick Bateman and Bruce Robertson. Things definitely take a turn for the bloody when the 27 year-old hotshot turns to murder to get ahead of his peers.

It’s adapted by Niven himself, so expect none of the book’s acidic flavour to be diluted, with Black Mirror’s Owen Harris debuting behind the camera. Jim Piddock, James Corden, Austenland's Georgia King, Da Vinci's Demons' Tom Riley, Submarine's Craig Roberts, Half Of A Yellow Sun's Joseph Mawle and Bunny & The Bull's Edward Hogg also appear.

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Brilliant book. If the film is half as good, it should be a Filthy, Psychotic delight and Nicholas Hoult is an actor developing just nicely at the right time to take on the character. Looking forward to this,

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