Hoult, Piddock Will "Kill Your Friends"

Deadline reports that Nicholas Hoult and Jim Piddock are set to star in on in the dark comedy "Kill Your Friends".

Based on the novel by author John Niven, Hoult plays an A&R man during the Britpop music wave of the late 1990s who goes to extremes to find the next hit.

Piddock plays the managing director of the record label.

Niven wrote the adapted the screenplay for director Owen Harris.

Gregor Cameron and Will Clarke are producing the film.