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Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) | Musical, Thriller

Hurry Up Tomorrow: Directed by Trey Edward Shults. With The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, Gabby Barrett.

The Weeknd Reveals First Look at His New Horror Thriller With Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan

The newest queen of horror, Jenna Ortega's next horror project just received a big update. While fans wait for Wednesday season 2, Ortega has another horror project on the horizon. From the director of Waves and It Comes at Night, Hurry Up Tomorrow stars Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and Abel Tesfaye, most commonly known as the multi-platinum artist The Weeknd. Lionsgate has released the first stills from the film directed and co-written by Trey Edward Shults, showing off the cinematic horror coming to theaters on May 16. The quasi-autobiographical story centers on "a musician plagued by insomnia [who] gets pulled into an odyssey with a stranger (Ortega) who begins to unravel the very core of his existence," according to the official synopsis.

The photos show off the unique lighting of Shults' upcoming film and were accompanied by an EW interview with the director and the muse himself, The Weeknd. However, perhaps even more interesting than the first look is Shults' comments on how the eerie project came to be. The film is tightly connected to and heavily inspired by The Weeknd's recently released album of the same name, which at the time of making the film was only at a demo stage. Over the course of developing the script for the film, the two artists worked together to create a film and album, both informed by the other.

"I got crazy inspired with him. There wasn't really music; it wasn't like, 'Here's an album, I want to make a movie.' It was more like, 'Let's make a movie.' He had some pieces of music, and at that point, it was primarily demos and instrumentals, and he just sent me those, and I got on a crazy writing flow with him."

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