Two years ago, Tom Ford told GQ that he was going to retire from his iconic fashion career as a designer and fully concentrate on cinema.
“I want to spend the next 20 years of my life making films,” Ford said. “And the clock is ticking. And so it was time to say goodbye to fashion. Fashion is a younger man’s game.”
He wasn’t joking. Word is that Ford now has two new projects ready to go. The one that’s set up as his next film, and being shopped around as we speak, is an adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven.” A production start in January 2026 was being eyed back in the spring. No word yet on whether that’s still the plan.
Now here’s Francine Maisler, Ford’s casting director, revealing she’s working around the clock on multiple projects, and that includes Ford’s much anticipated third film.
He’s in London and he’s my first call at 6:30 in the morning. We work around the clock because it’s him. We collaborate on every single thing […] It’s going to be this epic, incredible movie that you’re going to love.
As for what this “epic” new film will be about, Maisler remains mum, but if it sticks to its source material then it would most likely be set in 18th-century Venice and follow the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a castrated singer from Calabria, both trying to succeed in the world of the opera.
Ford has so far directed two well-reviewed films, his 2009 debut “A Single Man” and 2016’s “Nocturnal Animals”; the latter won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice and went on to earn nine BAFTA awards nominations.