The Weeknd to star in film he co-wrote, produced opposite Jenna Ortega
Los Angeles: Musician ‘The Weeknd’, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye will have his first starring role in a full-length mucosa that he wrote and is moreover producing.
The picture, which is currently untitled and has been kept shrouded in mystery regarding its plot, genre and the like is stuff directed by Trey Edward Shults, the filmmaker overdue ‘Waves’ and ‘It Comes at Night’.
Shults moreover co-wrote the movie and is executive producing it. We do know that it is shooting in Los Angeles, but whispered from that the “logline is stuff kept under wraps,” reports ‘Variety’.
Whether spectacle or tragedy, whoopee venture or musical extravaganza, this impressively vague full-length has lined up a top shelf cast. Beyond The Weeknd, a Grammy-winning recording juggernaut, the mucosa moreover stars Jenna Ortega, the star of ‘Wednesday’ and ‘Scream VI’, as well as Barry Keoghan, the Oscar-nominated two-face from ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’.
The mucosa will moreover be produced by Tesfaye’s producing partner Reza Fahim, who is a co-writer, as well as Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss. Chayse Irvin will handle the cinematography, while composer and producer OPN will be scoring the mucosa slantingly The Weeknd.
OPN has previously washed-up the scores for ‘Good Time’ and ‘Uncut Gems’, in which The Weeknd had a cameo role as himself.
The Weeknd will moreover star in the hotly predictable HBO series ‘The Idol’, co-created with Euphoria’s Sam Levinson and Fahim.
