Future Ruins, the film-music festival organized by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, has been canceled a month before its planned launch in Los Angeles. The festival cited “logistical challenges and complications” that would prevent it from materializing as planned, via a statement on social media. Refunds will be issued automatically, according to the statement.
As well as Reznor and Ross, John Carpenter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Questlove, Goblin, and Hildur Guðnadóttir were among the composers booked for the festival’s inaugural edition on November 8 at L.A.’s Equestrian Center. Billed by Live Nation as the “first of its kind,” it was conceived as an opportunity for composers “to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” Reznor said in the initial announcement. “There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again.”
The organizers’ statement reads, “Unfortunately Future Ruins will not move forward this year. The reality is, due to a number of logistical challenges and complications, we feel we cannot provide the experience that’s defined what this event was always intended to be. Rather than compromise, we’re choosing to re-think and re-evaluate.”
Nine Inch Nails recently released their latest soundtrack, Tron: Ares, and announced a new North American leg of their Peel It Back tour with Boyz Noise.
