{"id":663507,"date":"2026-11-01T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663507\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:48:17","slug":"billie-eilish-phoebe-bridgers-and-more-star-in-my-chemical-romances-short-film-prelude-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663507\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers and more star in My Chemical Romance’s short film ‘Prelude To The End’"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Chemical Romance<\/a> have released a new animated short film, \u2018Prelude To The End\u2019, featuring voice contributions from Billie Eilish<\/a>, Phoebe Bridgers<\/a>\u00a0and others \u2013 watch below.<\/p>\n

The film was made in collaboration with visual artist Lauren Tsai and arrives as the band continue celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark 2006 album \u2018The Black Parade\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Produced by Tsai\u2019s independent studio UNREAL INC., the project combines the visual world of her animated film The Dying World with \u2018The End.\u2019, the opening track from the album.<\/p>\n

The nine-minute film follows Astrid, a student at a mysterious New England boarding school that has become overrun with rubbish.<\/p>\n

When the school\u2019s authorities throw away her cherished sketchbook, she follows it down a rubbish chute and finds herself transported into a surreal world inhabited by forgotten ideas.<\/p>\n

Tsai voices Astrid herself, while Eilish plays her friend and Bridgers voices her sister. Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima plays a character known as The Teacher, while Scrubs actor John C. McGinley voices The Dean.<\/p>\n

Watch \u2018Prelude To The End\u2019 here:<\/p>\n

The project marks a full-circle moment for Tsai, who grew up creating animated fan videos set to My Chemical Romance\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an absolute dream to work on this project for The Black Parade and The Dying World,\u201d Tsai said in a statement.<\/p>\n

She added that she deeply respected frontman Gerard Way<\/a>\u2018s creative legacy, and that she was honoured he had drawn inspiration from her own work, having spent years admiring the worlds he created.<\/p>\n

Tsai previously worked with Bridgers in 2023, when she directed the animated music video for Boygenius\u2019 \u2018Cool About It\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME about that project, she said: \u201c\u2018Cool About It\u2019 is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained. It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is Boygenius.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bridgers is also a longtime admirer of My Chemical Romance, having covered \u2018Welcome To The Black Parade\u2019 alongside Sloppy Jane at SXSW in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Eilish and Bridgers have previously performed together, with the latter joining her alongside Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus<\/a> and Julien Baker<\/a> for a rendition of \u2018When The Party\u2019s Over\u2019 at London\u2019s Electric Ballroom in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Prelude To The End\u2019 will also be screened ahead of My Chemical Romance\u2019s final two Hollywood Bowl concerts tonight (October 30) and tomorrow (October 31).<\/p>\n

The shows will conclude the US leg of their \u2018Long Live The Black Parade\u2019 anniversary tour<\/a>, which has seen the band perform the 2006 record in full alongside selections from the rest of their catalogue.<\/p>\n

The performances have made headlines after the company behind the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders launched legal action against the band<\/a> over the use of lookalike uniforms during a staged gunfight.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, MCR\u00a0released an expanded 20th anniversary edition of \u2018The Black Parade\u2019<\/a> last Friday (October 23), featuring six bonus tracks, including previously unreleased recordings from a 2007 show in Hoboken, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

In its original 9\/10 review<\/a>, NME praised the record\u2019s theatrical ambition, writing that it belonged alongside \u2018American Idiot\u2019, \u2018Doolittle\u2019 and \u2018Nevermind\u2019 among the greatest American rock albums.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Way recently told fans that the group hope to record another album<\/a>, although no plans have been confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve kind of really always wanted to make another record, so we hope that life allows us to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cYou guys deserve another record. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll be. But it\u2019ll be awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance have released a new animated short film, \u2018Prelude To The End\u2019, featuring voice contributions from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[35459,146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-663507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-emo","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}