My Chemical Romance Release Short Film Prelude to The End Featuring Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, and More: Watch

My Chemical Romance have teamed up with visual artist Lauren Tsai for a new short film titled Prelude to The End, featuring voice contributions from Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Hideo Kojima, and John C. McGinley. Watch it below. Produced by Tsai’s independent studio UNREAL INC., it arrives in conjunction with the 20th anniversary celebrations of the band’s landmark album The Black Parade. The audio-video project fuses the imagery of her short film The Dying World with the opening track from the album, “The End.” Find My Chemical Romance Tickets Prelude to The End follows Astrid, a student at a peculiar New England boarding school who finds herself in a world of forgotten ideas after authority figures discard her cherished sketchbook. Tsai voices the lead herself, while Eilish plays her friend and Bridgers portrays her sister. Meanwhile, Kojima lends his voice to a teacher and McGinley plays the school’s imposing dean. For Tsai, the collaboration is something of a full-circle moment. Having grown up making animated fan videos for My Chemical Romance’s songs, she debuted The Dying World as a short film at the 2025 Annecy Film Festival and later went on to develop it into a multim...