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The Weeknd Tweeting About 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Director’s 'It Comes At Night' Led To Collaboration
The Weeknd Tweeting About 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Director’s 'It Comes At Night' Led To Collaboration

Trey Edward Shults and Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, are excited for fans to see the culmination of their professional and friendly partnership, Hurry Up Tomorrow . The film , which follows a musician suffering from insomnia who gets visited by a mysterious stranger, is a fictionalized yet semi-autobiographical story about a point in Tesfaye’s life. Tesfaye co-wrote the screenplay with Shults and Reza Fahim. Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum spoke with Tesfaye and Shults about their collaboration, which began after Tesfaye watched Shults’ second film, It Comes at Night . The Weekend was a fan of ‘It Comes at Night’ and ‘Waves’ “I don’t know if I’ve ever said this before, but It Comes at Night was the first time I’d seen [one of Shults’ movies],” said Tesfaye. “I saw it and I was automatically just taken by it because…how they portrayed it in the trailers was a specific type of film. So I went expecting just like a horror film, you know? And then I…left the theater...

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