CITY OF TINY LIGHTS Trailer: Riz Ahmed Gets in Over His Head as a Detective
I was wondering what Pete Travis, the director of 2012's Dredd, has been up to since that movie came out, and now I know the answer. Aside from a couple of TV projects, it looks like he's been hard at work on City of Tiny Lights, a new neo-noir thriller starring Riz Ahmed, who starred in last year's HBO series The Night Of and a little film you may have heard of called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Now we have the first trailer for the film, and it appears to be a stylish, low-key thriller that could be a nice platform for Ahmed to impress with another strong performance.
Audiences in the UK will find out if that's true when City of Tiny Lights comes out there on April 7, 2017, but the movie doesn't have a theatrical release scheduled for the United States yet, so we'll keep our eyes peeled for this one.
Meet Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed), cricket fan, devoted son to an ailing father and deadbeat private eye. He’s got an office above a cab firm, a taste for cigarettes and bourbon, and a finely tuned moral compass that he keeps hidden behind a sharp cynicism. When Tommy walks into his office one morning to find high-class prostitute Melody seeking his help, he’s launched into a story that plays as an utterly original modern noir.