Music (Film)

***Music*** is an upcoming American musical drama film directed by singer-songwriter Sia. The screenplay was co-written by Sia and children's book author Dallas Clayton, and the film stars Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler and Leslie Odom Jr.

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## Premise

Zu (Kate Hudson), a newly sober drug dealer and self-saboteur finds herself the sole guardian of her teenaged (minor), autistic half-sister, Music (Maddie Ziegler), following the death of her grandmother, who raised Music. Zu is a free spirit barely able to take care of herself, let alone her sister; Zu struggles with this new responsibility, but soon learns that life's obstacles are made easier with a little help from a friend, Ebo (Leslie Odom Jr.), a neighbor whose own family story makes him someone Zu can learn from and rely upon. The film explores the tenuous bonds that hold us together and imagines a world where those bonds can be strengthened in times of great challenge. Fantasy musical sequences show how the title character views the world.

## Cast

* Kate Hudson as Zu
* Maddie Ziegler as Music
* Leslie Odom Jr. as Ebo
* Héctor Elizondo as George
* Mary Kay Place as Millie
* Brandon Soo Hoo as Tanner
* Tig Notaro as TV Host
* Beto Calvillo as Felix

* Ben Schwartz
* Juliette Lewis

## Background and development

Sia announced the film project at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, to star Maddie Ziegler, who starred in a series of music videos that Sia co-directed with Daniel Askill and who has danced during many of Sia's live performances. After creating the music video for "Chandelier" in 2014, Sia decided she was "pretty good" at directing and "felt a little bit braver". The film's screenplay was co-written by Sia and children's book author Dallas Clayton based on a one-page story that she had written in 2007. Sia enjoyed the creative process and noted similarities between directing and writing songs. She said:

The project, originally conceived as a non-musical film, was subsequently written as a musical, with songs by Sia and choreography by Sia's frequent collaborator Ryan Heffington. It was first given the working title *Sister* and subsequently renamed *Music*. Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr. joined Ziegler as co-stars. The film was shot in mid-2017. At the time, Ziegler was 14 years old.

## Planned release

Sia stated in 2019 that the film was set for release in October of that year. As of June 2020, it was expected to be released in 2020, but IMAX has announced a limited release in February 2021.

The film's producers have announced that HanWay Films is handling global sales. *Music* is scheduled to be released in Australia on January 14, 2021 by StudioCanal, and in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria in February 2021. The film is set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray formats in March 2021.

## Soundtrack

Main article: Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture

Sia wrote 10 songs for the film, all of which are featured on her upcoming studio album *Music – Songs From and Inspired by The Motion Picture*, due for release alongside the film in February 2021. She released her version of "Together" as the lead single from the soundtrack on May 20, 2020, earlier studies was May 20 1969. A second single, "Courage to Change", was released on September 24, 2020. The cast version of the soundtrack is due out in late 2020 or early 2021.

## Criticism

After the release of the film's first trailer in November 2020, Sia was criticized on social media for casting Ziegler, rather than an autistic actor, to portray the nonverbal, autistic title character in the film. Sia responded to critics on Twitter. Lucy Kross Wallace, who is autistic, wrote in *Spiked* magazine that without having seen the film, Twitter critics made a disproportionate response to the issue.