As The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is a Grammy-winning, Super Bowl-playing phenom. The longtime movie lover fulfills a new dream with "Hurry Up Tomorow."

Abel Tesfaye, the singer and sometime actor (“The Idol”) better known as the Weeknd, has called “Hurry Up Tomorrow” a “love letter” to his fans in an interview with the New York Times. Tesfaye, as he’s credited here, co-wrote the movie, and also produced it, stars in it and, with Daniel Lopatin, composed the music for it.

Named after Tesfaye’s latest studio album and directed by It Comes at Night ’s Trey Edward Shults, the navel-gazing and over-indulgent Hurry Up Tomorrow centers around a fictionalized account of the days preceding and following an incident in 2022,