Kid Cudi’s filmmaking calendar is getting crowded before his first directed feature has reached viewers. Scott Mescudi, the musician and actor known professionally as Kid Cudi, is attached to direct and star in Wrong Number, a horror thriller co-starring Barbie Ferreira. The project is filming in Los Angeles, and Mescudi has also written its screenplay and plans to compose its score through Mad Solar.
That is a notably broad set of responsibilities for one movie: filmmaker, leading performer, writer and composer. It also puts Wrong Number in a more personal lane than a standard acting assignment. Rather than merely entering a horror project, Mescudi is building its story and sound as well as appearing on screen. For a genre where music, timing and atmosphere can do a great deal of the work before a monster—or a very unwelcome caller—ever appears, the score credit is especially worth noting.
The premise centers on a successful self-help author whose new relationship initially appears promising. The romance then turns threatening, escalating into a situation involving a stalker and an accusation of murder. The title suggests that a phone call is unlikely to be the sort of harmless wrong-number encounter that ends with an awkward apology and everyone moving on with their day.
A romance that tilts toward danger
At the story level, Wrong Number begins with a setup built around trust: an accomplished author and a new romantic connection. The stakes change as danger intrudes, with stalking and a murder allegation pushing the premise firmly into thriller territory. The available description does not identify which character is accused, who the stalker is, or how the title connects to the unfolding crisis. Those unanswered details leave plenty of room for the film’s eventual marketing to define its particular brand of dread.
Mescudi previously indicated that his next film would blend horror-thriller material with comedy, although the currently available story description emphasizes the darker side of that balance. Horror and humor can be effective companions when a film lets tension breathe before puncturing it, or lets an uncomfortable situation become stranger rather than safer. Still, the extent of the comic element in Wrong Number has not been detailed, so viewers should not assume a specific tone beyond its horror-thriller framing.
Ferreira joins Mescudi as the other lead. She is widely recognized for Euphoria and for appearing in Jordan Peele’s Nope, a film that paired spectacle with unease and genre tension. Her casting gives Wrong Number two central performers with experience moving across very different types of screen projects, from television drama to high-concept horror.
The cast around Cudi and Ferreira
The supporting cast includes Lucy Barrett, Dewayne Perkins, Clifton Powell and Laura Harrier. No character names or roles have been specified, meaning it is not yet clear how each performer fits into the relationship at the center of the movie or the circumstances surrounding the stalker and murder accusation.
- Kid Cudi (Scott Mescudi): director, screenwriter, score composer and star.
- Barbie Ferreira: co-lead.
- Lucy Barrett: supporting cast member.
- Dewayne Perkins: supporting cast member.
- Clifton Powell: supporting cast member.
- Laura Harrier: supporting cast member.
Harrier’s presence is another point of interest in a cast that has not yet had its character dynamics revealed. For now, the central facts are straightforward: Mescudi and Ferreira lead the film, while Barrett, Perkins, Powell and Harrier round out the announced ensemble. As production continues in Los Angeles, more specifics about the cast’s roles may emerge later—but none have been formally laid out yet.
Second feature, first release still pending
Wrong Number is set to become Mescudi’s second feature as director. His first, Doe, completed production earlier in 2026. Mescudi also wrote and stars in that drama, which follows a man living through homelessness and addiction across 24 hours in Los Angeles. The cast of Doe includes Mark Webber, Leah McNamara, Brandon Scott and Brandon Perea.
The two films indicate a sharp shift in genre rather than a narrow repeat of one format. Doe is described as a grounded drama focused on a compressed 24-hour period and difficult lived circumstances. Wrong Number, meanwhile, takes a romance toward stalking, suspicion and horror-thriller escalation. Both projects nevertheless place Mescudi at the center of the creative process as writer, director and actor.
In August, Mescudi previewed a follow-up project without naming it, describing it as a horror thriller with comedy in the mix. He said at the time that he intended to release both films in 2027. A firm release date for Wrong Number has not been announced. Mescudi has said he expects his second directorial feature to arrive in late summer 2027, but that remains an expectation rather than a dated rollout.
That makes 2027 a potentially important year for this chapter of his career. If the planned schedule holds, audiences may see the director’s debut and its genre-following successor within the same year. It is an ambitious plan, particularly with Wrong Number still filming, and release strategies can always change. The confirmed point is the intended window, not a locked theatrical or streaming date.
A growing screen career alongside music
Acting has become an increasingly consistent part of Mescudi’s work beyond music. His recent screen credits include Ti West’s X franchise and Knuckles. He has also completed a lead role in the supernatural thriller Pathetic Fallacy, alongside Jessica Rothe, Travis Fimmel and Natasha Lyonne.
That continuing genre presence makes Wrong Number feel like an extension of an existing interest, even as it represents a bigger step behind the camera. Horror offers filmmakers a compact but flexible toolkit: suspense, sound design, tonal turns, paranoia and the useful storytelling fact that a seemingly ordinary situation can become alarming in a hurry. A relationship turning unsafe and a murder accusation arriving in the same story provide Mescudi with material that can plausibly move between psychological tension and more overt genre stakes.
There is also a wider entertainment context for performers taking more control of the material they make. The transition from recording artist and actor to multi-hyphenate filmmaker does not guarantee a finished film will land in one particular way, but it does change what audiences can look for. Here, Mescudi’s authorship reaches from the script to the direction and score, making Wrong Number an unusually comprehensive creative assignment. Elsewhere in screen news, projects continue to take long routes from planning to production, as seen with an eight-episode Point Break sequel series planned for 2027.
What is known—and what remains unanswered
There is enough information to establish Wrong Number as a real, active production with a clear creative team and a central premise, but several practical details are still undisclosed. There is no announced release date, no confirmed distributor or platform, no character breakdown, and no indication of when a trailer or first footage might appear. Nothing currently establishes whether the anticipated late-summer 2027 timing will be tied to theaters, streaming, or another release plan.
For now, the movie’s appeal rests on the combination of a recognizable lead pair, a cast that includes Harrier, Perkins, Powell and Barrett, and a premise designed to make new romance feel increasingly unsafe. Add Mescudi’s multiple roles and the previously mentioned horror-comedy possibility, and Wrong Number has the outline of a project with plenty of moving pieces—hopefully more controlled than the call implied by its title.
