The History Of Sound (2025)

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“The Crown” star and recent Emmy winner Josh O’Connor and “Normal People” BAFTA winner Paul Mescal will star in gay romance “The History of Sound,” an Oliver Hermanus-directed adaptation of an award-winning short story.

Produced by End Cue, the story follows two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during the WW1 period, set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen. An official description of the pic reads: “In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.”

"The History of Sound” is based on the eponymous Pushcart Prize-winning story by American author Ben Shattuck, which is available to read online in literary journal The Common. Principal photography will begin in summer 2022, predominantly in the U.S. and on location in the U.K. and Italy. -@

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This has begun filming. It was delayed while Hermanus was directing the Starz/Sky miniseries ‘Mary & George’ which is currently airing in the UK and airs in the US next month.

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Story available to read for free at The Common.

I identified with this way too much:

How to put it? This type of sadness. Not nostalgia. Not grief. Just the obvious and sudden fact that my life looked an inch shorter than it could have been. That the best year really had come when I was twenty.

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Paul Mescal Was ‘Starstruck’ by His ‘The History of Sound’ Co-Star Josh O’Connor

Paul Mescal has worked with auteurs and iconic actors alike, but the star is now revealing one of the first future co-stars he was truly starstruck by: Josh O’Connor.

The duo lead “The History of Sound,” which will debut at Cannes after being in the works for four years. The project was first announced in 2021, with a press statement from director Oliver Hermanus (accurately) citing how O’Connor and Mescal were “two of the most promising actors of their generation.”

The shoot was planned for 2022; however, the production was delayed due to financing amid the pandemic and later, guild strikes. The film was instead shot in 2024, after O’Connor and Mescal had already respectively become big stars. Yet Mescal still remembers just how in awe he was of O’Connor at the start of his own career post-“Normal People” success back in 2020.

“We had a sweet Zoom,” Mescal told Vanity Fair about after O’Connor reached out to him as a fan of the series. “He was one of the first people that I was starstruck by after ‘Normal People’ came out. He’s now one of my best friends, and I just adore him.”

Both Mescal and O’Connor later separately became attached to “The History of Sound.” Mescal plays singer Lionel who falls for his fellow New England Conservatory student David (O’Connor) in the adaptation of Ben Shattuck’s World War I-set short story. And Mescal and O’Connor’s friendship only grew during filming the queer romance.

“We felt very boyish in each other’s company throughout,” Mescal said of filming with O’Connor. “I’ve always said this to Josh, but he brings out a childlike version of me. I haven’t felt that kind of degree of boyishness in myself for a long time.”

As for how long it took to bring “The History of Sound” to the screen, Mescal marveled at the er, history of the film itself. “How many times do you hear people who really try and get something made over five, 10, 15 years, and it just falls away?,” Mescal said. “I remember feeling very lucky. Like, we have to enjoy this. Because we’ll come across other opportunities in our life where we love a script as much as this, and we just don’t get to get it made.”

He added, “The thing that I’m most proud about is that the feeling I had when I read the script for the first time is what I got when I saw the film for the first time.”

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Trailer:

THE HISTORY OF SOUND | Official Trailer | In Theaters September 12 - YouTube

In US theaters on September 12, and Canada on September 19.

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Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers While Filming The History of Sound (Extended) - YouTube