After conquering the world with her voice, Adele is ready to tell a new story, this time through film. The 16-time Grammy winner is set to make her acting debut in Cry to Heaven, the highly anticipated new feature from Tom Ford.
Cry to Heaven: Adele Joins All-Star Cast in Tom Ford’s Anne Rice Adaptation
Adapted from Anne Rice’s 1982 novel, the film is set in 18th-century Italy, exploring the haunting world of the castrati, male opera singers who were castrated in youth to preserve their angelic voices. The story unfolds amid the gilded opera houses and dark intrigues of Venice.
Adele joins an all-star cast including Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Hunter Schafer, and Thandiwe Newton.
From Las Vegas Residency to Silver Screen Storytelling
After the final curtain fell on her Weekends with Adele Las Vegas residency last November, the singer announced she would be taking “a big break” from music to “do other creative things for a while.”
Known for her raw emotion and storytelling through song, Adele now brings her expressive power to the screen in a role that Ford has described as “essential to the film’s heart.”
Tom Ford’s New Era: Filmmaking Focus Post-$2.8 Billion Fashion Sale
For Tom Ford, Cry to Heaven represents both a return and a reinvention. After stepping away from fashion in 2022, when he sold his label to Estée Lauder for $2.8 billion, Ford declared that he would “spend the next 20 years making films.”
His earlier works, A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016), earned international acclaim for their visual mastery and emotional precision.
The film will be self-financed by Ford and shot in London and Rome, with production beginning in January 2026 and a release planned for fall 2026.
Adele’s ‘Inevitable’ Move to Film: A New Creative Chapter
If her songs once gave voice to heartbreak, Cry to Heaven may give Adele a chance to inhabit emotion in a new form. In Ford’s cinematic world, where elegance meets pain, Adele’s presence feels not only right but inevitable.
