Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho official trailer reveals several plot points for the movie’s story, adding to the time-traveling supernatural horror already teased. As with many highly anticipated new releases, Last Night in Soho was originally scheduled to be released in September 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed several films. It was delayed to April 2021 and again pushed back to October 22 before Wright decided to delay it once more to October 29, 2021, hoping for a thrilling Halloween weekend opening. Over the year since it was originally intended to be released, Wright has revealed precious few details about Last Night in Soho before the official trailer was released.
Last Night in Soho also features a phenomenal cast, including Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, Old), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, The Witch), and Matt Smith (The Crown, Doctor Who), who will take the movie’s plot between the 1966 drama and the modern-day context. Additionally, the movie features the final film appearance of Diana Rigg and a return to film for James and Oliver Phelps (better known as Harry Potter’s Fred and George Weasley). Edgar Wright’s new thriller follows Eloise (McKenzie), a young woman who mysteriously transports between the present day and the 1960s, where she finds herself in the body of Sandie, a singer in London. While she enjoys the glamour of the ‘60s, she makes horrifying revelations about the past that she must deal with in the present.
The new trailer reveals far more about the movie’s plot than the previous teaser, though Wright’s comments suggest the trailer reveals far less than audiences think. Wright even took to Twitter to ask that those who saw the screening of Last Night in Soho at the Venice premiere keep from exposing any secrets, implying the movie contains a few shocking twists and an exciting ending. With the knowledge of Edgar Wright’s statement that the Last Night in Soho trailer isn’t telling the whole story, here’s a breakdown of what the trailer seemingly reveals about the plot of Last Night in Soho.
Eloise Is A Modern-Day London Fashion Student
McKenzie’s modern-day set role was already teased to deal with fashion in Last Night in Soho’s original teaser, which briefly shows McKenzie in a classroom drawing a woman with the pink dress and blond hair-do seen on Anya Taylor-Joy’s character. The new trailer explicitly confirms this, with Eloise telling a taxi driver that she’s moving to the city as a student at the London College of Fashion. She moves into an apartment in Soho, where she explains that if she could live anywhere at any time, she’d live in London in the 1960s, which obviously is translated into her fashion design.
Eloise’s Idol Is Sandie, A 1960s Singer
It’s already been revealed beforehand through Last Night in Soho's teaser that Eloise has an obsession with Sandie, even drawing her clothing and hairdos in her fashion classes. It’s unknown whether she developed this adoration before or after staying in Sandie’s old room and seeing into her past life, though the odds are that it happened afterward. Eloise only reports Sandie’s murder after transporting into her within her dreams, though if Sandie was that famous Eloise likely would have already known that she had died under mysterious circumstances. Additionally, Eloise is staying in Sandie’s old room, and if she was that big of a fan beforehand, she more than likely intentionally chose to stay in the room, which would be odd considering she would also had to have known that Sandie was murdered there. The events depicted in Last Night in Soho's trailer suggest that Eloise’s room introduced her to Sandie’s intimate life, whereafter her enjoyment of traveling back in time as the singer transferred into her modern-day story, where Eloise is seen mimicking Sandie’s hairdo and taking selfies at the salon.
Eloise Sees Sandie’s Life In Her Dreams
Eloise reveals that once she falls asleep, she is transported back to the 1960s in London, where her visions primarily follow the drama surrounding Sandie. She tells another Last Night in Soho character that she has a “gift,” which suggests that the 1960s storyline is not merely imagined in her mind and she’s truly transported into the past as a fly-on-the-wall or even into Sandie’s body while she’s asleep. Eloise explains that what she sees really did happen in the past, and has a close connection to the specific apartment she’s staying in, as shown in time-jump snippets.
Sandie Was Murdered By Jack
The earlier teasers for Last Night in Soho suggested upcoming House of the Dragon's Matt Smith would be playing a dark character with malicious intentions, but it wasn’t revealed that he actually killed Taylor-Joy’s character. The trailer shows that Sandie and Jack were singers in a romantic relationship back in 1966, whereafter he revealed his abusive personality, eventually murdering her in the same room that Eloise now lives in. In the present day, Eloise even reports the murder to the police after having seen it in her dream. The Last Night in Soho trailer then reveals that Matt Smith’s character is still alive and was never convicted of the murder, which leads Mckenzie’s character to track him down in the present day (where he's played by Superman's Terence Stamp) and bring him to justice.
Sandie Haunts Eloise’s Room
It seems that Eloise’s “gift” is a sixth sense that allows her to connect with spirits, in this case with Sandie, as Sandie was murdered in the room that Eloise is living in. Eloise herself asks if another character “believes in ghosts,” which indicates that Sandie’s ghost is trying to tell Eloise that Jack murdered her, and hoping she’ll have him apprehended for it in the modern-day setting. It’s possible her spirit never left the room after the gruesome murder and she hasn’t been able to move on, needing Jack to see justice before Sandie's spirit can rest.
Eloise Tries To Stop Sandie’s Murder
It’s shown in the trailer that Eloise can place herself in the body of Anya Taylor-Joy's character when she travels to the past, so it’s likely she can also control her movements and interactions, which would mean completely changing them in the past timeline. Eloise apparently wants to go back into the past to stop Jack from killing Sandie, whether that means going into her body or trying to break through the figurative and literal fourth wall and help Sandie avoid the situation. One snippet from the Last Night in Soho trailer even shows Eloise breaking through a glass wall to seemingly protect Sandie, suggesting she defies the supernatural laws of being an observer and places herself as a person in the past, disrupting the time-space continuum. It’s likely that Eloise’s defiance of time and space is what causes the eerie arms to grab her through her apartment in one of Last Night in Soho’s earlier teasers, possibly leaving her trapped between the two timelines.
