Adele is buying and selling in her microphone for a movie script.
The “Good day” singer, 37, is slated to make her performing debut in Tom Ford's upcoming movie Cry to Heaven, Deadline reported on Wednesday, November 12. An adaptation of Anne Rice's 1982 novel, the story is about in 18th century Italy and follows two males, a Venetian noble and a castrated singer, as their paths cross on the earth of opera.
Adele will star in Cry to Heaven alongside Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Sturdy, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Owen Cooper, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Hunter Schafer, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannemann and Lux Pascal.
The movie is at the moment in pre-production in London and Rome, with principal images set to start in January 2026. A launch date is anticipated within the fall of subsequent 12 months. Ford, 64, who final directed Nocturnal Animals in 2016, is self-financing and plans to discover a purchaser after manufacturing is full, in keeping with Deadline.
Adele's performing debut comes after she concluded her Weekends with Adele Las Vegas residency in November 2024, telling followers on the time that she didn't know what her future held.
“I'll miss it terribly, and I'll miss you terribly,” she advised the viewers throughout her one centesimal and closing present on the Colosseum in Caesars Palace. “I don't know after I'm subsequent gonna carry out once more. “I'm not doing anything. I'm truly s***ting myself like, what I'm gonna do whereas I'm gone. I don't have any f***ing plans.”
Adele continued, “After all I'll be again, the one factor I'm good at is singing. I don't know after I wish to subsequent come onstage.”
The Grammy winner beforehand revealed in July 2024 that she can be taking a break from music after her residency ended.
Adele Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photographs for Adele
“I don't have any plans for brand new music in any respect,” she mentioned in an interview with Germany's ZDF. “I desire a huge break after this and I believe I wish to do different artistic issues, only for a short time.”
Although Adele mentioned she doesn't “like being well-known,” she added, “I really like that I get to make music on a regular basis.”
A supply completely advised Us Weekly in September 2024 that Adele was “prepared for her subsequent chapter” as she entered her hiatus.
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“She desires to take a step again and concentrate on her household,” the insider mentioned of the “Straightforward on Me” singer, who shares son Angelo, 13, with ex-husband Simon Konecki. “[Adele's] residency and tour was very taxing … and she or he's trying ahead to having extra free time.”
The supply additionally shared that Adele hopes to have a child with fiancé Wealthy Paul. The couple began courting in early 2021 after they met years prior at a celebration.
“I don't really feel anxious or nervous or frazzled,” she advised Vogue of how she feels with Paul, 44, in October 2021. “It's fairly the alternative. It's wild. … I'm a 33-year-old divorced mom of a son, who's truly in cost. The very last thing I would like is somebody who doesn't know the place they're at, or what they need. I do know what I need. And I actually know what I don't need.”
