The producers of the film met by chance at The Gutter Bar on La Croisette when the Cannes Film Festival of 2014 was just beginning. It was eleven o'clock at night and they were the only ones left.
One of the characters of the film, James Compton-Street, is named after Old Compton Street, a well known Soho street.
All the characters is the film were met by the author of the original novel Colin Wilson, at different times during his stay in Soho in the 1950s. The film is definitely based on a true story. Except for Ironfoot Jack all the names have been changed to protect the guilty. After the novel was published in 1961 the author retired to the country and didn't return to Soho until many decades later. The novel was his farewell to 'Sohoitis'.
After having lived in London for a few years, the director stumbled across a Spanish edition of Adrift In Soho in a second hand bookshop while visiting Montevideo, Uruguay. He knew there and then that he had to make the film version of the novel as the surreal characters and situations were unique.
Adrift In Soho will feature some of the most talented American and British actors of the new generation. Plus a selection of local characters and accents not seen often in British cinema.