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\n\tFrank Ocean<\/a> has begun filming his directorial debut in Mexico City with Alien: Romulus<\/em> and Industry <\/em>star David Jonsson. According to Variety<\/a><\/em>, the rising British actor will have top-billing in the currently untitled independent film whose plot has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n \n\tNo other information is available about the latest project from the enigmatic Ocean, who has been mostly out of the public eye since he pulled out of<\/a> the second weekend of Coachella in 2023 after suffering a leg injury during his first weekend headlining set.<\/p>\n \n\tAt the time a rep said, \u201cAfter suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1,\u00a0Frank Ocean\u00a0was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity. On doctor\u2019s advice, Frank is not able to perform weekend 2 due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe singer \u2014 whose most recent album was 2016\u2019s Blonde<\/em> \u2014 added in a statement at the time, \u201cIt was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos. It isn\u2019t what I intended to show but I did enjoy being out there and I\u2019ll see you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSince then, he\u2019s released the 48-page booklet Mutations<\/a><\/em>, a 2023 project featuring photos taken by Ocean that was printed on tissue-weight paper, and, in November of that year, a minute-long preview of an unnamed moody track<\/a>. The latter was the first new music from the enigmatic performer who had not issued any new music since he surprise-dropped two singles, \u201cDear April\u201d and \u201cCayendo<\/a>\u201d in 2020, followed by a never-released, untitled nine-minute song on the Christmas special on his Apple Music 1\u00a0Blonded Radio<\/em>\u00a0show in December 2021.<\/p>\n \n\tOcean also dropped another unnamed snippet in December 2023, accompanied by a 24-second video in which he enthusiastically danced<\/a> to a mid-tempo R&B jam. Producer Michael Uzowuru revealed in an interview<\/a> last year that he\u2019d been in the studio with Ocean in Miami working on new music, after collaborating with him on both Blonde<\/em> and 2016\u2019s visual album Endless<\/em>. The singer described their relationship thusly: \u201cMe and Michael\u2019s careers exist post hip-hop \u2014 that genre, that culture, informs both of us greatly, but his appetite has grown; his vocabulary, musically, has grown so much over the time that I\u2019ve known him.\u201d<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n