The most-decorated Australian musician of his generation, Daniel Johns has announced a genre-bending, semi-autobiographical featurette in collaboration with BMG.

What If The Future Never Happened? blurs the line between film and music video, biopic and sci-fi fantasy, and further cements Daniel Johns as a pioneering creator making art that defies convention and boundaries.

The story is set in 1994, mere months before a teenage rockstar called Daniel (Rasmus King) would conquer the global music world in ways never-before-seen. On this ordinary day in regional Australia, while escaping the routine torment of three local bullies (led by newcomer Lockie Ranson), a chance interaction with a mysterious figure from the Future will change Daniel’s Tomorrow forever.

BMG worked with Daniel Johns from concept to completion on every aspect of the film’s writing and production.

What If The Future Never Happened? is soundtracked by Grammy, Emmy, ARIA, and APRA-winning composer Daniel Johns’ chart-topping solo album FutureNever, interspersed with orchestral reinterpretations of his Silverchair classics. Released by BMG, FutureNever has recently broken ARIA chart history, becoming the longest-reigning Australian Top 10 album of 2022.

Speaking on the trailer debut, Daniel Johns explained: "The FutureNever era for me is about defying convention and making ambitious art across all mediums. What If The Future Never Happened? is a grunge, sci-fi short adventure inspired by the pop culture I was immersed in before a curious case of child stardom. It’s at once the most honest and most fantastical thing I’ve ever done. I can’t wait for people to see it, but until then I hope the trailer gets people excited—it’s a hell of a trip."

After changing the podcast game with his Number One Spotify Original Who Is Daniel Johns?, What If The Future Never Happened? is another bold and ambitious statement by the artist The Australian calls the nation’s "greatest living rockstar".

What If The Future Never Happened? is the latest project in BMG’s growing line of music-related films and television projects, and the fourth film to be introduced by BMG in just the past month, following Moonage Daydream, the definitive new portrait of David Bowie, which recently made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, DIO: Dreamers Never Die, which premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, and Angelheaded Hipster, a new Marc Bolan and T. Rex music documentary.

Additional films include the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival selections David Crosby: Remember My Name (2020 Grammy nominee Best Music Film) and the Joan Jett documentary, Bad Reputation; Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records; and Echo In The Canyon, one of the top-grossing documentaries of 2019.

Recently, BMG partnered with Pulse and Quickfire Films and multi-Platinum, two-time BRIT Award-winning, Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi for his debut feature-length documentary film and announced a multi-faceted global partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival to launch the definitive three-part documentary series, They All Came Down to Montreux, celebrating the history of the music festival.