Kill Your Friends is a dark comedy crime-thriller film directed by Owen Harris. Nicholas Hoult has joined the cast of the film to play lead role as (A&R) agent Steven Stelfox, set in 1997 in London. The film also stars Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Georgia King and James Corden.

Plot: London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, The Verve rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult) is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where ‘no one knows anything’ and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the concept of “killer tunes” to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

The film is set to be released in the US on April 1.