NEED TO KNOW
- Scott Stapp has launched an Outdated West-inspired brief movie for his music “Deadman’s Set off”
- The movie stars his 7-year-old son Anthony
- Daughter Milan, 18, was additionally a manufacturing assistant onset
Scott Stapp is a gun-toting cowboy in a brand new music video brief movie that options an unlikely hero — his son Anthony!
The Creed rocker, 51, launched the movie on Thursday, July 31 as a companion to his newest single “Deadman’s Set off,” which is featured on his 2024 solo album Increased Energy.
“The music is about pushing again while you’ve been pushed too far. It is like, ‘I favor peace, however for those who threaten what’s mine, you are a showdown,'” Stapp tells ipromiseyoumedia. “It is positively a hard-hitting rock music, however the story it tells — a lawless world, reclaiming your energy and defeat versus salvation — simply felt like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday taking Tombstone again from the dangerous guys.”
Within the Outdated West-inspired clip, which begins with the Bible verse “…the son shall not bear the guilt of the daddy,” Stapp performs a priest named after the music’s title, who’s haunted by horrible flashbacks from his previous.
One flashback options Anthony, 7, being attacked by a gaggle of males. And when the music lastly kicks in, it’s clear that Stapp is out to avenge his son by elevating hell on the evil males lurking round city.
The movie continues with a showdown till lastly Stapp is shot. At that time, Anthony saves the day by opening hearth on the ultimate assailant. Ultimately, father and son are in a position to reside fortunately ever after, freed from the darkness that plagued them.
“It is me to my youngsters, saying, ‘Everytime you want somebody to have your again, ‘I am your huckleberry,”” Stapp says, quoting the 1993 Western Tombstone.
The set was a household affair for Stapp, as his daughter Milan, 18, served as a manufacturing assistant. He shares Anthony, Milan and son Daniel, 15, who’s an actor, with estranged spouse Jaclyn, with whom he referred to as it quits final yr after 18 years of marriage. The “Increased” singer can be dad to son Jagger, 27, from a earlier marriage.
“Anthony is 7, so it was, ‘Daddy’s making a film. There shall be dangerous guys, explosions and we’ll be the nice guys. Do you wish to make a film with me?'” Stapp recollects. “He mentioned, ‘Yeah!’ Then requested for ice cream.”
The rocker says that as filming neared, he talked together with his son about how films are simply fake, and the way weapons will not be toys. There was an authorized armorer on set, and Anthony used prop weapons; there was no reside ammunition on set. Stapp’s son additionally stayed off set for among the greatest explosions and shootouts.
“He is so curious. He loves motion films, video video games, Nerf weapons. Child stuff,” says Stapp. “I wish to encourage his creativity, however I am additionally his protector. In fact, each security measure we may take, we took.”
The “Arms Vast Open” singer additionally praises daughter Milan, a musician who’s “very into the manufacturing facet of issues.”
“I used to be so happy with how exhausting she labored behind the scenes,” he says. “For Anthony, it was a day enjoying and dressing up with Dad. He is an imaginative, playful little boy, so performing got here naturally. It was superb. After I carry out, they’re side-stage, watching Dad play rock star. However with this undertaking, they acquired to be ‘in it’ with me.”
Stapp provides that the second he lastly acquired to point out Anthony the movie’s ultimate lower is one he’ll cherish “for the remainder of my life.”
“He acquired this large grin on his face, high-fived me, and mentioned, ‘That was so cool! We did job, it seems to be actual!'” he recollects. “He acquired to see himself because the hero he’s and he was so proud.”
Stapp and his youngsters shot the movie over two days at Whitehorse Ranch in Landers, Calif., and has been teasing it to followers on social media over the past week.
“Adapting Scott’s storyline for the display screen was straightforward as a result of he’s a story songwriter — the arc is already there,” says director Tyler Dunning Evans. “With Anthony on set and Milan working behind the scenes, Scott was hands-on in establishing security measures and his love for his youngsters translated to a weak however fierce efficiency within the ultimate lower.
“Deadman’s Set off” is simply the most recent launch for Stapp, who final yr reunited with Creed for the primary time in 12 years. The band is presently within the midst of the 2025 leg of its Summer season of ‘99 Tour, and is scheduled to remain on the highway by means of August.
In July, Creed additionally hosted the Summer season of ‘99 and Past Pageant, which featured bands like Nickelback and Daughtry.
“I really feel compelled to create. It’s who I’m,” Stapp informed ipromiseyoumedia in 2024. “So if I’m not doing it with Creed, there’s a void. I’ve to do it. There’s stuff in me as an artist and as a inventive that I’ve to get out. Music is my methodology of doing that.”
As mirrored within the brief movie, Stapp additionally sung the praises of his tightknit household to ipromiseyoumedia.
“I by no means had a household like this. They’ve actually demonstrated to me what a household is all about, and having one another’s backs and sticking collectively,” he mentioned. “It is positively one thing that is rubbed off on me and that I’ve realized from, and hopefully we’ll be capable of carry that ahead in my life regardless of how the story unfolds.”
