It's been more than four years since Nine Inch Nails released their last album in 2020 Ghost VI: Locusts. But lest you think that NIN mastermind Trent Reznor and longtime musical foil Atticus Ross spent those years just chilling out, the pair revealed in a new interview with GQ that, in fact, they have an avalanche of new projects in the works.
Much of the sundry will come through the duo's new media company, With Teeth, which the magazine says is based on storytelling in a variety of industries, including fashion, an upcoming music festival and a deal with Epic Games. for “something that isn't quite a video game, in the UEFN ecosystem that Epic has built around Fortnite.”
Most exciting for NIN fans, however, is the news that all this scoring work has the pair excited for a new studio album. Reznor said the score “managed to make Nine Inch Nails feel a lot more exciting than it has been in years. I'd let it atrophy a bit in my mind for a number of reasons.”
Now, however, Ross said he feels “excited to get started on the next record… I think we're in a place now where we have an idea.”
With Teeth, which Reznor and Ross put together over the past two years with their art director John Crawford and producer Jonathan Pavesi, is intended to help men find new ways to explore the NIN IP. According GQ, the idea was, “what could they do that they weren't already doing around storytelling? Some of that might take the form of looking at Nine Inch Nails from another angle — “we're working on domestic IP around Nine Inch Nails, stories that we could tell, and we're working on developing those in a way that's not what you think that would be,” which the magician noted would not be a biopic.
In addition, the two are developing a television series with The bear creator Christopher Storer, as well as a film with veteran horror director Mike Flanagan (Doctor sleep).
The piece describes the surprisingly predictable hours the longtime best friends and business partners keep, each showing up to 58-year-old father of five in Reznor's back LA studio Monday through Friday to work on their various ventures from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. . “We show up. We're not late. We don't go in to start fighting,” Reznor said of the Oscar-winning duo's discipline.
Other projects include completing the score for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film Queeras well as one about the director's sports love triangle challengers (released April 26), starring Zendaya. Of the latter, Reznor said that Guantanamo's marching orders included a sentence along the lines of “what if there was really loud techno music throughout the movie?” The duo is also wrapping up the score for Scott Derrickson's upcoming sci-fi thriller The canyon starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller.
But wait, there's more!
Reznor also said they are working on a short film with artist Susanne Deeken, a clothing line due out this summer called Memory Fade and the undisclosed music festival, which the singer said NIN plans to “do debut as composers along with a roster. other interesting people”. a new record label is scheduled to launch at the same time as the festival.
check it GQ cover below.
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