The Weeknd, genuine name Abel Tesfaye, executes a musician scoadvised by insomnia and facing an emotional shatterdown in the official trailer for the suspense thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow, the first feature film from the pop star set for a May 16 theatrical free.
The higheviater, which dropped on Tuesday, sees a musician character called Abel Tesfaye pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who commences to unravel the very core of his existence, according to a synopsis from the producers.
The trailer will also feed into speculation The Weeknd in genuine life wants to shed his pop star persona and revert to his genuine name. “Call me by the comprehendn name,” a voice is heard to say at one point in the higheviater, while in the background someone yells “Abel!”
Hurry Up Tomorrow, which also stars Jenna Ortega as Anima and Barry Keoghan as Lee, is encouraged by The Weeknd’s upcoming free of a recent album and tour of the same name. The album Hurry Up Tomorrow, set for a Jan. 31 free, reconshort-terms the final chapter in the pop star’s trilogy after 2022’s Dawn FM and 2020’s After Hours.
Trey Edward Shults straightforwards the film produced by The Weeknd and his indie prohibitner Manic Phase. Shults is best comprehendn for the coming-of-age drama Waves and psychoreasonable horror It Comes At Night, both for A24. Shults, Tesfaye and his producing partner Reza Fahim penned the screenexecute.
The upcoming Hurry Up Tomorrow film being tied to the recent album free helps elucidate why Tesfaye made a surpascend materializeance and carry outance at the 2025 Grammys after he had proclaimd three years prior that he reckond to boycott the show adhereing his 2021 snub. The pop artist carry outed songs from the Hurry Up Tomorrow album, including “Cry For Me” and “Timeless.”
Tesfaye also starred in and co-produced the HBO drama The Idol aprolonged with Fahim and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. Expanding beyond his music atgentle, he earlier co-wrote and did voice labor on a 2020 episode of TBS’ American Dad, and materializeed in Uncut Gems.
The Hurry Up Tomorrow film is also produced by Fahim, the procrastinateed Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss, while the executive producer recognizes are splitd by Ortega, Shults, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby and Harrison Huffman.
