The release of Hurry Up Tomorrow is fast approaching, and most of what audiences can expect is still a mystery. This is thanks to the fact that Abel Tesfaye, who co-wrote, produced, and stars in the film, and the rest of the creatives involved, "trust the audience."
Director and co-writer Trey Edward Shults has said that the ambiguity is "very intentional," adding in an interview with EW, "With me and Trey, we romanticize the idea of giving out a trailer that doesn't give away anything."
Shults continued to comment, "I also think it's honest to the tone of the film. You can take everything at face value and go on an emotional ride with it, but also, if you want to read things in a deeper layer and infer a lot of stuff, it's pretty rich."
The film follows "a musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence." It can be viewed as a companion piece tied to The Weeknd's recent album of the same title.
"We were doing a lot of changes for post with the music, with score. I was writing music on set. The music felt like it was another character in the film," Tesfaye told Collider. "We were giving notes to the music, we were trying to adjust it to the scene. So, it wasn’t too much of a nightmare, but I think the music was probably the longest process out of everything, scoring a picture."
The cast also includes Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Ortega plays Ani and explained, "My favorite movies are the ones that create conversation, and I think that this is one of those films that does that. It also invokes a very specific feeling that is somewhat relatable, even if you haven't experienced anything like it yourself. It's this kind of universal feeling, so I just keep saying, 'It's a feeling, it's a feeling.' It's more about the tone and the environment. Obviously, what everyone takes from that is going to be different and personal to them."
"My favorite thing about the original idea going into it, we wanted it to really feel subjective from the jump," Tesfaye shared. "The whole gotcha moment of it being subjective, or is it real or is it not, we wanted to dead that at the beginning. It's going to feel experimental."
Hurry Up Tomorrow will be released exclusively in theaters on May 16.
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