Everybody is absolutely leaning into the movie-album development, and the newest to do it’s Teyana Taylor. Which is a shocking 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 known as Escape Room. It additionally occurs to be the title of a forthcoming album. They’ll 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 occurring, but it surely does look like possibly there’s some time-traveling concerned.
Watch it under.
Escape Room is coming this August by way of Def Jam.
