Adele will make her acting debut in Tom Ford’s adaptation of ‘Cry to Heaven’

Tom Ford has enlisted Adele to co-star successful an adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven."

NEW YORK -- Fashion decorator Tom Ford has called up Adele to co-star successful his adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven,” his accumulation institution said Wednesday. The film, which Ford is writing, directing and producing, volition people the acting debut of the superstar singer.

Adele is conscionable 1 portion of a ample ensemble formed that includes Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, George MacKay, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, “Adolescence” breakout Owen Cooper and Hunter Schafer, though nary details were instantly disposable astir their circumstantial roles.

Rice’s novel, archetypal published successful 1982, is acceptable the satellite of the opera successful 18th period Italy and follows 2 characters from precise antithetic backgrounds: 1 calved a peasant, the different a Venetian noble.

“Cry to Heaven” volition beryllium the third diagnostic for Ford, who made his directing debut with the romanticist play “A Single Man” successful 2009, followed by the intelligence thriller “Nocturnal Animals” successful 2016. The movie is presently successful pre-production for a merchandise successful precocious autumn 2026.

As with his erstwhile features, Ford is financing “Cry to Heaven” himself. In 2016, helium told The Associated Press: “I volition lone ever marque a movie if I power the underlying rights.”

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