Future Ruins (also known as the Future Ruins Festival) was a cancelled 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 was to focus on film and television composers along with performed sets of electronic music.
History 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. 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. Fans continued on how the band had been teasing a music festival since the release of their album Ghosts I–IV in 2008.
The event was cancelled on October 3, 2025.
Promotion Future Ruins was first announced on May 13, 2025, via Instagram, and its official website launched on May 15, 2025. The festival described itself as an immersive event with three stages that fans can travel through, and 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."
Line up The festival was promoted to have the following composers. + Artists and performers billedSoundtrack credits highlighted by the festival's organizers Cristobal Tapia de VeerBabygirl, 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 Ben Salisbury and Geoff BarrowEx Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror: Men Against Fire, Devs Danny ElfmanBatman, 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 Claudio Simonetti's GoblinSuspiria, Profondo Rosso, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera Hildur GuðnadóttirJoker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Women Talking, Hedda TBAA performance of Howard Shore's score of David Cronenberg’s Crash Isobel Waller-BridgeMunich – 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 John CarpenterHalloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape from New York Kyle Dixon and Michael SteinStranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Boom Mark MothersbaughThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok Questloveperforming the score works of Curtis Mayfield Robert Aiki Aubrey LoweCandyman, Master, Telemarketers, The Color of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Power, Unvion, Seeds, Life After Tamar-kaliMudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I am Everything Terence BlanchardBlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Night in Miami, The Woman King, Perry Mason Trent Reznor and Atticus RossThe Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Light, Waves, The Vietnam War, Mank, The Killer Volker Bertelmann a.k.a. Hauschka 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
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