Nick Cave

Dozens of artists have pulled out of the festival over its ties to Barclays, a British bank with significant investments in companies supplying arms to Israel.

'Is that one of the things that we thought was good?' asks Cave during the trailer. 'Sounds like a madman walking!'

'The new album is really good,' said Cave. 'It’s really strong. Great songs.'

Nick Cave, who scored the film alongside his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis, contributed a new original track.

'I can tell you that it is a record full of secrets,' he teased. 'It is made up of a series of complex and interlinking narratives, the title song "Wild God" being the primary point of propulsion.'

Interest in the announcement was so great, it crashed the songwriter's website.

'[T]he space we occupy depends upon our participation and breaks down if we don’t,' Cave wrote.

Longtime collaborators Cave and Ellis are working with director Sam Taylor-Johnson on the highly anticipated film.

The pair first met in 1989, by which point Cave was already 'completely in awe of Shane’s songwriting.'

The "Doctor Who" and "The Crown" actor will executive produce and star in the limited series based on Cave’s 2009 novel.

Here's the singer and actor Ray Winstone in a Jaguar in a scene from the new movie, in cinemas tomorrow (19 Sept)