You see, the credits are interspersed with almost silent shots of Soho, curiously devoid of people in contrast to the thriving versions shown in both the 1960s and present-day timelines of the film. Is it a comment on the commercialisation of the iconic district, the loss of glamour in the decades since its heyday? Or just a moment of breathing room after the main action of the movie?<\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s neither \u2013 because Wright has now revealed that the shots were filmed during the last lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, and were included after the director was struck by the eerie, empty streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose shots, right at the very end of the movie, interspersed with the credits, were shot during the pandemic,\u201d Wright told RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p> \u201cI live just north of Soho. It\u2019s funny; people always kind of think I\u2019ve left and gone to Hollywood. But I\u2019ve edited every movie that I\u2019ve ever done in Soho, including Baby Driver and Scott Pilgrim. So I\u2019ve spent a lot of time here writing, as far back as Spaced, through Shaun of the Dead.<\/p>\n \u201cBut more recently, in the last five years, I\u2019ve started living close to here. And then during the pandemic, when London was really on lockdown, a couple of times I walked into Soho at night and was sort of astonished to find it completely deserted, and a place that is normally the only area of London that is truly 24\/7 \u2013 to see it empty, without a single car or pedestrian on the street, was such a kind of ethereal experience, that I called my producers and said, \u2018We have to shoot empty Soho.\u2019<\/p>\n Accordingly, Wright and his team did just that, despite having finished the main bulk of the film some time before (shooting wrapped in August 2019).<\/p>\n \u201cWe went out one night. I think it was July 2020, just before the restaurants opened again, and shot for a night in deserted Soho,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s a very strange experience, to stand in Piccadilly Circus, an area so busy that people say, \u2018It\u2019s like Piccadilly Circus here\u2019 \u2013 without a single person or car on the street. It was very humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, soon after Wright and company added these extra shots Soho began to open up again, and today it\u2019s almost as bustling as it ever was. But Wright still wanted to include the footage, considering it an \u201cepilogue\u201d to the main action of the film.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a weird way, it becomes a kind of strange epilogue for the movie. \u2018And here it is now,\u2019\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, luckily, it has come back to, you know, close to what it was. But there was a point where a completely deserted Soho was quite a sad sight.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI guess when I was making the movie, and I intended for it to recreate a \u201860s time capsule with the period scenes, I didn\u2019t realise I was also creating a 2019 time capsule at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n Hopefully, unlike the horrors of Last Night in Soho\u2019s Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy), that lockdown memory will remain firmly in the past.<\/p>\n Last Night in Soho is in UK cinemas now. For more, check out our Movies<\/a> page or our full TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Huw Fullerton Published: Friday, 29 October 2021 at 12:00 am Modern movies love a twist on the end credits \u2013 and while Edgar Wright\u2019s Last Night in Soho doesn\u2019t include any secret post-credits scenes, the roll call of everyone involved in the film does still manage to play with the format a little. 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