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[[File:2022_01_11_BellamyWSDTease.jpg|thumb|right|Actor wearing a Bellamy mask in the WSD music video]]
[[File:2022_01_11_BellamyWSDTease.jpg|thumb|right|The "Kueen"]]
[[File:WSD_Army.jpg|thumb|right|The "WSD Army"]]
[[File:WSD_Creature.png|thumb|right|The "Creature"]]
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Revision as of 20:42, 13 January 2022

The "Kueen"
The "WSD Army"
The "Creature"
Muse video
Name Won't Stand Down
Album/single LP9
Length 4:01
Initial air date 13th January 2022
Filming Location Kyiv, Ukraine
Director Jared Hogan
Watch YouTube


Information

First music video for the first single, Won't Stand Down, off of the upcoming album. It was released together with the single itself on January 13th, 2022, at 3PM GMT. [1]

Up until a few days before the release, very few teases were shown regarding the music video (only ones being the short snippet on Muse's TikTok[2], Bellamy teasing with a screenshot of him[3] and another screenshot from the video posted on Muse's Instagram[4]), until a longer music video tease was posted by Muse on an Instagram story on January 12th, 24 hours before the release, together with a YouTube premiere link.

Shot in an undisclosed location somewhere in Kyev, Ukraine, the video has been produced by MrMr Films, a production company based in London and co-produced by Production Shelter, a Kyiv-based Ukrainian production company. The video was directed by Jared Hogan, while overall creative direction has been handled by Jesse Lee Stout, with support from Lark Creative.

Description

The video depicts a mysterious figure, named "Kueen" (or simply "Queen" by the director himself), that siphons the collective energy of a dark army to transmute into an augmented being.[5] Kueen is, despite looking like Bellamy wearing make-up, actually played by an actress, wearing the grotesque Bellamy mask, which starts her journey on a wheelchair, dressed in a white gown, which, by the end of the video, later transforms into a dark grim creature, played by an actor, with a completely different mask, the same which was featured in the Instagram filter Muse put out a few days prior to the release.[6]

Trivia

  • The mask worn by the member of the Army who pushes and plugs in the wheelchair at the beginning, seen in the video, is similar to the ones worn by 'Nameles Ghouls', masked band members of the Swedish metal band 'Ghost'.[7]
  • Each member of the Army wears the mysterious monogram pattern on their suit, identical to the one seen on the single cover. The video theme itself also appears on the single cover.
  • First music video after Resistance to be filmed in a 4:3 ratio in it's entirety

Won't Stand Down Screenshots

  • WSD Screen1.png
  • WSD Screen2.png
  • WSD Screen3.png
  • WSD Screen4.png
  • WSD Screen5.png
  • WSD Screen6.png
  • WSD Screen7.png
  • WSD Screen8.png
  • WSD Screen9.png

Credits

Production:

  • Director: Jared Hogan
  • Producer: Savvas Stavrou
  • Production Company: MrMr Films
  • Director of Photography: Joe Cook
  • Editor: Paul O’Reilly
  • Edit Producers: Tatyana Alexandra & Polly Kemp
  • Edit Company: Trim Editing
  • VFX Supervisor: Denis Reva
  • Colourist: Jacob McKee
  • Online: Joey Doyle
  • Grade & Online Producer: Maria Webb (Forager)
  • Focus Puller: Eugene Bubley
  • Gaffer: Valeriy Butkov


Service Production (Shelter):

  • Executive Producers: Albert Zurashvili & Gena Shevchenko
  • Producer: Dasha Deriagina
  • Production Assistant: Anastasiya Kovaleva
  • 1st Assistant Director: Vadim Yuzba
  • 2nd Assistant Director: Misha Varopay
  • Production Designer Danil Dubrovsky
  • Costume Designer: Margarita Shekel
  • Wardrobe Team: Iris Laricheva, Anna Maksimova & Andrew Bib
  • Hair/Make-Up: Dasha Taivas
  • Choreographer: Roman Chukmanenko
  • Choreographer Assistant: Dasha Samoilove
  • Casting Director: Karina Melnichenko
  • Casting Manager: ​​Sergey Pulenetz
  • Stunts: Svyatoslav Barabolya
  • Production Manager: Max Matveev
  • BTS: Ira Suldina & Sergei Prostakov


Cast:
Kueen:

  • Natalia Zozulia

Creature:

  • Roman Chukmanenko

Army:

  • Vika Erchik
  • Masha Yakobchuk
  • Daria Zakharchenko
  • Eugeniy Dmitrienko
  • Aleksandr Gordeev
  • Tigran Grigoryan
  • Volodymir Kabys
  • Misha Kilimchuk
  • Ostap Kobrin
  • Alexandr Kozenko
  • Dima Kravchenko
  • Dmitriy Kudin
  • Denis Shpak
  • Artur Vagner
  • Amiran Veselov
  • Andrey Veselyi
  • Anatolii Vodzianskii
  • Rostislav Yatsunenko
  • Dmitrii Shtanko
  • Igor Kostetskiy
  • Liza Kokritskaia
  • Nastia Lapko
  • Veronika Volosova
  • Petr Simonov
  • Andrei Povoznikov
  • Iaroslava Zagorui
  • Maksim Sitalo
  • Polina Isaenko

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.muse.mu/news/wont-stand-down-322501
  2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@muse/video/7051163700660538630
  3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmPjA1JWxZ/
  4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmeq8nqnzD/
  5. ↑ https://www.nme.com/news/music/muse-wont-stand-down-single-video-3137071
  6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/rzos32/30_second_audio_of_wont_stand_down_if_you_try_out/
  7. ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Nameless_Ghouls_-_Coachella_2013.jpg
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