Tom Ford is a billionaire fashion icon and filmmaker who defined modern glamour at Gucci and his namesake house. After selling his brand to Estée Lauder for $2.8 billion, he returned to cinema in 2026 to direct Cry to Heaven, a self-financed adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel. Set in 18th-century Venice, the film features an all-star cast including Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Adele in her acting debut. While Haider Ackermann now oversees the Ford fashion label’s "seductive dialogue," the man himself is focused on this lavish operatic vengeance tale. Currently filming in London and Rome, the project marks his third feature and his most ambitious creative pivot to date.