HBO posts trailer for The Idol, The Weeknd’s music biz Euphoria
The Safdie-tinged teaser for Sam Levinson's Euphoria follow-up, starring The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, is barely safe for work
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After aligning “on a new creative vision” for the show roughly six months ago, a new trailer for Sam Levinson’s Euphoria follow-up debuts, promising sex, drugs, and more sex and drugs. Presumably, Lily-Rose Depp’s popstar also sings on the show, but the trailer doesn’t really get into that side of things.
Starring Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, the show looks inspired by The Weeknd’s Uncut Gems directors, the Safdie Brothers, delivering a modern take on the 80s excess of American Gigolo and Scarface by way of A Star Is Born. The drugs, the slow zooms from across a crowded room, and the grimy, oversaturated nightclub milieu, all share the grittiness that Levinson brought to Euphoria to create the all-important vibe.
Here, Depp plays Jocelyn, a pop star on the mend from a mental health crisis and on the hunt for a hit. But while she’s instructed not to trust anyone in Hollywood, she is told to trust the one person telling her not to trust anyone: Tedros (The Weeknd). It’s all a tad cliche if you can believe it.
Hell-bent on bringing sex back to television, Sam Levinson is also bringing an eclectic cast that includes Dan Levy, Rachel Sennott, Eli Roth, and Jane Adams. It also features Saved By The Bell and Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley, as well as the late Anne Heche in one of her final performances.
The show, slated for a 2023 release, recently underwent a major creative upheaval. In April, HBO released a statement to Variety stating that the show’s creatives were building and refining the show’s vision and “aligned on a new creative direction. The production will be adjusting its cast and crew accordingly to best
serve this new approach to the series.”
We assume that the show needed more slow zooms and people saying “fuck.” If that’s the case, this trailer delivers.
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“aligned on a new creative direction. The
production will be adjusting its cast and crew accordingly to best
serve this new approach to the series.”
That doesn’t sound weird and stilted AT ALL
november, 2021
filming starts
april 26Amy Seimetz has exited as the director of the Weeknd’s HBO drama “The Idol,” Variety
has learned. The series is being reworked with changes to its cast and
crew. According to sources, production was already completed on multiple
episodes of the six-episode series, which will now be redone due to a
change in creative directions.april 27
The Weeknd allegedly felt the
show was “leaning too much into a ‘female perspective’” according to
sources.they scratch what they had which was most of season 1 already filmed and start over. there’s been rumors of alot of production issues since then.never forget even though hbo wants you toi will be watching because i am trash.
Tesfaye, Levingson, and Fahim are listed as the show creators though, which is what those screen grabs are saying.
They couldn’t find a prettier woman with bigger breasts? In Hollywood!!??
I’m not gonna watch anything starring The Weeknd. His music is pretty decent but no thanks to him trying too hard to look cool.
Everything about this show looks awful, everything I’ve heard about this show is somehow worse. And behind the scenes double header of The Weeknd and Sam Levinson? Dear God no.
I’m not surprised that Troye Sivan is trying to cockblock America.