Everybody is absolutely leaning into the movie-album pattern, and the most recent to do it’s Teyana Taylor. Which is a stunning plot twist for the musician-turned-movie star that hinted at taking a step again from music. Since starring within the glorious award-winning movie A Thousand And One, she’s been solid in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other and is even confirmed to star within the anticipated Dionne Warwick biopic. Now the Harlem-born artist is bringing the worlds of music and movie collectively after sharing a trailer for a brand new brief movie referred to as Escape Room. It additionally occurs to be the title of a forthcoming album. They are going to each seemingly arrive this coming August.
The mission, which teases the follow-up album to 2020’s The Album, was written, directed, and produced by Taylor. It additionally stars Lakeith Stanfield and Aaron Pierre, who appear caught in a love triangle with Taylor. The trailer opens with wedding ceremony scene the place Taylor says her vows to Stanfield. Then issues get fairly gnarly. There’s flashes of a cage-like coffin and visuals of Taylor dressed as some type of robotic. It’s truthfully very complicated to inform what’s happening, but it surely does seem to be perhaps there’s some time-traveling concerned.
Watch it under.
Escape Room is coming this August by way of Def Jam.
