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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Edgar Wright\u2019s latest film Last Night in Soho<\/a> arrives in cinemas this weekend, telling a giallo-inspired, time-travelling tale of a young fashion student obsessed with 1960s Soho.<\/p>\n

The film is based on a story that Wright first came up with several years ago, with the Baby Driver director bringing in 1917 screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns as a collaborator on the script during early development.<\/p>\n

And speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Wilson-Cairns has explained that although \u201cthe beginning, the middle and end was always there\u201d in some form, there were some key changes made to the original story after she started working on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sat in the same room and we like spent six weeks you know, just like cracking the first draft talking about characters we really like,\u201d she explained of the writing process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we really changed some of the \u201960s stuff because that was originally silent \u2013 [there was] no dialogue, just music so we expanded that together.\u201d<\/p>

Another major influence Wilson-Cairns had on the script was that small aspects of her own experiences living in Soho were incorporated into the film \u2013 notably including the Toucan bar, where she had formerly been a bar worker.<\/p>\n

And she said that her own love of Soho was one of the key reasons she was asked to co-write the script in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Edgar] first told me the story for Last Night in Soho, not as a collaborator just as a friend,\u201d she said. \u201cJust like what do you think, do you like this? And also, I suppose, as a young women who\u2019d gone on a similar journey \u2013 although not quite as supernatural!<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then about nine months after that, he phoned me and he said, \u2018Do you remember that story?\u2019 And because I work and live in Soho I\u2019d thought about it literally every day. And I told him that and he went, \u2018Oh, do you want to write it with me?\u2019 And that was a very easy decision!\u201d<\/p>\n