A trailer for the new dark comedy thriller 'Kill Your Friends' has just been released and is based of the John Niven novel of the same name. It stars 'X-Men' actor Nicholas Hoult as a demented music executive that is willing to kill to progress his career in the industry.

'Kill Your Friends' is set in the late '90s and gives a dark take on the Britpop music industry. It also stars James Corden, Georgia King, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Joseph Mawle, Edward Hogg, Ed Skrein, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Rosanna Arquette.

Here's the film synopsis:

"London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, Radiohead rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit chasing 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 - "Yeah, those animals".

"Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, 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.

"Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the Nineties music business. A time and place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers; where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough."

'Kill Your Friends' is scheduled for a November 6 release date in the UK, however a US release date hasn't been specified.