Beyoncé and Jay-Z seem to be taking advice from Mad Men's Don Draper and Peggy Olson: If you don't like what they're saying, change the conversation. Just a few days after releasing a joint statement about the Solange-Jay-Z elevator fight that had the Internet abuzz, the TIME 100 cover star and her husband unexpectedly premiered a faux short film "RUN" on Sunday. The star-studded, high cinematic visual - a thematic nod to their first collaboration, 2002's "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," and its 2013 sequel "Part II (On the Run)," which plays in the background, serves as a promo trailer to entice fans with what to expect for Beyoncé and Jay-Z's forthcoming highly anticipated the 16-city "On The Run" tour, which kicks off on June 25th in Miami and will mark the first time the singer and her rapper husband have toured jointly.
Melina Matsoukas, who directed Beyoncé's video for "Pretty Hurts," also helmed this gripping big budget near-four-minute "RUN" mini-movie, which the Hip-hop's royal couple didn't skimp by recruiting some of Hollywood's heavy hitters, including Sean Penn, Scandal's Guillermo Diaz, "stars" Don Cheadle, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones and her sister Kidada Jones all make appearances for crime, betrayal, violence, love and sex.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z are once again play race around the city like a modern day 'Bonny and Clyde,' two criminals whom tote guns, rob banks and run from the law while professing their undying love for one another. "You don't know who I am anymore," the "Run the World" singer responds before proclaiming her love for Jay-Z, which is why she's chosen to live such a risky life. "I love him." Their dangerous love is shown throughout the promo with various scenes of them being intimate and even one part where Beyoncé is stitching up Jay-Z's arm after he sustained an injury.
Though it (unfortunately) won't be a real movie, the video also does feature everything Beyoncé fans would want in a music video: She fires machine guns, runs from cops in fabulous outfits and puts other celebrities in her place. If you think the nearly four-minute that this mini-movie lasts are not enough, and that most-likely Beyoncé and Jay-Z will release the 'full thing' later, then your dreams will be crushed when you read the ending caption reading...'COMING NEVER.'
Melina Matsoukas, who directed Beyoncé's video for "Pretty Hurts," also helmed this gripping big budget near-four-minute "RUN" mini-movie, which the Hip-hop's royal couple didn't skimp by recruiting some of Hollywood's heavy hitters, including Sean Penn, Scandal's Guillermo Diaz, "stars" Don Cheadle, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones and her sister Kidada Jones all make appearances for crime, betrayal, violence, love and sex.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z are once again play race around the city like a modern day 'Bonny and Clyde,' two criminals whom tote guns, rob banks and run from the law while professing their undying love for one another. "You don't know who I am anymore," the "Run the World" singer responds before proclaiming her love for Jay-Z, which is why she's chosen to live such a risky life. "I love him." Their dangerous love is shown throughout the promo with various scenes of them being intimate and even one part where Beyoncé is stitching up Jay-Z's arm after he sustained an injury.
Though it (unfortunately) won't be a real movie, the video also does feature everything Beyoncé fans would want in a music video: She fires machine guns, runs from cops in fabulous outfits and puts other celebrities in her place. If you think the nearly four-minute that this mini-movie lasts are not enough, and that most-likely Beyoncé and Jay-Z will release the 'full thing' later, then your dreams will be crushed when you read the ending caption reading...'COMING NEVER.'
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