There is some irony in the casting of this central character, as the ‘Hiddleston Hybrid’ straddling the fictional creations of Ian Fleming and JG Ballard is not the only aesthetic link between the two writers. Spring marks the cinematic outing of JG Ballard’s hitherto ‘unfilmable’ science-fiction novel High-Rise, starring likely James Bond successor, Tom Hiddleston, as anti-hero Dr Robert Laing. A brief look at JG Ballard’s dystopian classic and the Brutalist architecture that inspired it.
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