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

WASHINGTON: Singer Adele is set to make her acting debut in a new movie from director and fashion designer Tom Ford titled ‘Cry to Heaven’, according to People.

The movie is adapted from author Anne Rice’s 1982 book, which follows “two men castrated to ensure their perfect soprano voices” in 18th-century Italy, according to the author’s website.

She will be seen along with Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ciaran Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Owen Cooper, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Hunter Schafer, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannenmann and Lux Pascal, according to multiple outlets.

Adele will make her acting debut in “Cry to Heaven,” Tom Ford’s first movie in more than a decade.

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Ford wrote the movie’s screenplay and will also direct and produce the film. The movie will begin filming in London and Rome for an intended fall 2026 release.

‘Cry to Heaven’ will mark Ford’s third feature film as a writer, producer and director. He made his debut in 2009 with A Single Man, which starred Firth and Hoult.

Rice’s book, Cry to Heaven, follows two men, Guido Maffeo and Tonio Treshi, whose lives become intertwined in Venice when Guido takes him on as a student as Tonio pursues his dream of singing, according to People.

“Guido Maffeo is castrated at age 6 and enters the conservatory. He becomes a star until he loses his voice. When his voice is gone, he becomes a teacher, searching for a boy who can fulfil his lost dream,” reads a synopsis for the novel, in part.

Adele completed a residency in Las Vegas in November 2024 and hinted throughout last fall that she would be taking a break from the public eye after it ended. She most recently stepped out at a Formula One Grand Prix event in Texas in October, according to People. (ANI)