The Idol is coming to Cannes Film Festival.Congrats to everyones involved.
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While announcing the title, Fremaux also described theHBOproject as a movie that could become a series.
Character details are being kept under wraps, but HBO has dropped a series ofenigmatic trailersteasing the series.
Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye in ‘The Idol’HBO
Joe Epstein serves as showrunner and writer on the series.
Mary Laws, who has written onSuccessionandPreacher, writes and co-exec produces.
The Weeknds manager Wassim SAL Slaiby and creative director La Mar C. Taylor also co-exec produce.
This yearsCannes Film Festivalruns May 16-27.
