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Future Ruins
Event poster
GenreOrchestral, Electronic
Dates8 November 2025
Location(s)Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Los Angeles, United States
Years active2025
FoundersTrent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Websitefutureruins.com

Future Ruins (also known as the Future Ruins Festival) is a one-day music and arts festival organized by composers and performers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross through their special-purpose entity Future Remains. Scheduled to be held in November 2025 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, the event focuses on film and television composers along with performed sets of electronic music.[1]

History

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Reznor and Ross began working together on film scores in 2010 with David Fincher's film The Social Network. The collaboration spanned several film and TV show soundtracks.

Future Ruins was first mentioned as a teaser without a name to upcoming ventures under Reznor's and Ross' band Nine Inch Nails in a GQ interview in April 2024.[2] Without a name this left fans speculating on what the ventures would be under vague descriptions as Reznor had mentioned which were film productions, a collaboration with Epic Games, and fashion.[3] Fans continued on how the band had been teasing a music festival since the release of their album Ghosts I–IV in 2008.[4] In leading up to the announcement for Future Ruins, Reznor and Ross, would be finishing their score for Tron: Ares, as Nine Inch Nails,[5] and confirmed their Peel It Back Tour was to launch in June, which would be completed before the festival.[6]

Promotion

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Future Ruins wouldn't be revealed as a music festival until 13 May 2025, via promotions of an Instagram account.[7] The event was officially announced on 15 May 2025 along with a website.[8] The festival deems itself as an immersive event with three stages that fans can travel through, with general admission tickets and VIP included, pre-sale is set to begin on 21 May 2025.[9] The event is promoted as in a once in a lifetime experience and is the first of its kind to occur in Los Angeles. The event puts emphasis on the non-typical structure of hierarchy of artists and each set will be encompassed as its own event, as Reznor states: "Every artist is a headliner, each with their own specially curated moment."[5][10][11]

Reznor wanted to allow the invited artists "to come out and feel the adrenaline rush and wave of inspiration from playing in front of a live audience. It's about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music, the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting.”[5]

Line up

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As a part of the lineup, the concert is promoted to have the following composers.[12][13] There are no headliners.

Artists and performers billed Soundtrack credits highlighted by the festival's organizers
Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror, Utopia, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Ponyboi, The Third Day, National Treasure, The Girl with All the Gifts, Humans
Ex Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror: Men Against Fire, Devs
Batman, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Alice in Wonderland, Spider-Man, Milk
Suspiria, Profondo Rosso, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera
Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Women Talking, Hedda
  • TBA
 A performance of Howard Shore's score of David Cronenberg’s Crash
Munich – The Edge of War, Emma, Black Mirror: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, I Came By, Wicked Little Letters, Fleabag, The Lesson, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Magpie, Sweetpea
Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape from New York
Stranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Boom
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok
performing the score works of Curtis Mayfield
Candyman, Master, Telemarketers, The Color of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Power, Unvion, Seeds, Life After
Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I am Everything
BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Night in Miami, The Woman King, Perry Mason
The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Light, Waves, The Vietnam War, Mank, The Killer
All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, Lion, The Amateur, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal, Hollywoodgate, Adrift, War Sailor, The Old Guard, Stowaway, Patrick Melrose

References

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  1. ^ Kreps, Daniel (2025-05-14). "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Announce Inaugural Future Ruins Fest Celebrating Film Music". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2025-05-22. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  2. ^ Baron, Zach (2024-04-04). "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Have a Plan to Soundtrack Everything". GQ. Archived from the original on 2024-06-01. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  3. ^ Garner, Emily (2025-05-14). "Nine Inch Nails are teasing their own festival, Future Ruins". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  4. ^ Dunworth, Liberty (2025-05-14). "Nine Inch Nails are teasing new festival 'Future Ruins'". NME. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  5. ^ a b c "The Music Tells the Story at Reznor and Ross' Future Ruins Festival". futureruins.com. Archived from the original on 2025-05-18. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
  6. ^ Magazine Alternative Press. "Nine Inch Nails announce Peel It Back summer tour". Alternative Press Magazine. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  7. ^ Dunworth, Liberty (2025-05-14). "Nine Inch Nails announce inaugural Future Ruins festival celebrating iconic film and television composers". NME. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  8. ^ DeVille, Chris (2025-05-14). "Nine Inch Nails Announce Film-Score Composer Music Festival Future Ruins". Stereogum. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  9. ^ Aswad, Jem (2025-05-14). "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Unveil 'Future Ruins' Film & TV Composer Festival With Questlove, John Carpenter, More". Variety. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  10. ^ Corcoran, Nina (2025-05-14). "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Announce New Future Ruins Music Festival". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  11. ^ Kaufman, Gil (2025-05-14). "Trent Reznor Sets Line-Up For Inaugural Future Ruins Festival Spotlighting Film & TV Score Composers". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  12. ^ Harrison, Scoop (2025-05-14). "Nine Inch Nails Announce Future Ruins Festival, Celebrating Influential Music Composers". Consequence. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  13. ^ "Future Ruins Music & Arts Festival - The Los Angeles Equestrian Center - November 8 2025 - The Music Tells The Story". www.futureruins.com. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
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