Won't Stand Down (video)

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Actor wearing a Bellamy mask in the WSD music video
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
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Information

First music video for the first single, Won't Stand Down, off of the upcoming album. It will be 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.

The video has been produced by MrMr Films, a production company based in London and Shelter Film, an Ukrainian production company based in Kyiv, where filming took place at, in an unknown studio. The video was directed by Jared Hogan, while overall creative direction has been handled by Jesse Lee Stout.

Description

The band appear to have taken a horror-based approach for the music video. The video depicts a mysterious figure, named "Kueen", 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, 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 masks worn by the Army, portrayed in the video, are 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

Credits

  • Director: Jared Hogan
  • Producer: Savvas Stavrou
  • Production Company: MrMr Films
  • Director of Photography: Joe Cook
  • Editor: Paul O’Reilly
  • Edit Producer: Tatyana Alexandra & Polly Kemp
  • Edit Company: Trim Editing
  • VFX Supervisor: Denis Reva
  • Colourist: Jacob McKee
  • Online: Joey Doyle
  • Grade & Online Producer: Maria Webb at Forager


SHELTER:

  • 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
  • Stunt: Svyatoslav Barabolya
  • Production Manager: Max Matveev
  • Focus Puller: Eugene Bubley
  • Gaffer: Valeriy Butkov
  • BTS: Ira Suldina, Sergei Prostakov


CAST:
Kueen:

  • Natalia Zozulia

Army:

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

See also

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