Watch Tom Petty’s ‘Something Could Happen’ Video

A new video for Tom Petty‘s “Something Could Happen” directed by Warren Fu and starring Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead) premiered last night. “Something Could Happen” appears as part of the All The Rest portion of the recently released Tom Petty box set Wildflowers & All The Rest.

Wildflowers & All The Rest is an expanded edition of Petty’s 1994 solo album, Wildflowers. The deluxe box set includes the original LP, a collection of songs left off the album, Tom’s home recordings from the Wildflowers era, alternate versions and a compilation of Wildflowers tracks performed live. The previously unreleased “Something Could Happen” kicks off the set’s second disc, All The Rest. Petty planned to turn his attention to Wildflowers before his tragic death at age 66 in 2017.

Director Warren Fu shared the following about his visual for “Something Could Happen”:

It is an honor to create visuals for this previously unreleased gem. The fact that it was one of Tom’s favorite songs from All The Rest makes it even more special. In looking back on Tom’s old music videos, it was obvious that he had a lot of fun with them and was not afraid to get a bit weird. I wanted to create another modern fairytale in the spirit of Tom’s music video for ‘Into The Great Wide Open.’ Every fairytale has some sort of theme or message. In our story, we have a character that is an incarnation of memories reassembled into a living creature, trying to make its way back home. I think the message I was trying to convey is that all our experiences, the good the bad, the beautiful and the painful make us who we are, and we should embrace them. Tom never compromised his artistic integrity and always stayed true to who he was, so I feel like our message in this video is in line with his spirit. Hints of his presence are also felt throughout the video in easter eggs: The skywriting heart from ‘Free Fallin’,’ a crown for ‘It’s Good To Be King,’ a dog collar with an ‘R’ in a nod to Tom’s dog Ryder, the slow dance dip from ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance,’ the Alice and the Mad Hatter hat from ‘Don’t Come Around Here No More,’ and the storybook motif from ‘Into The Great Wide Open.’ When Tom’s fans watch this video, I hope they feel the same way I felt hearing the song for the first time: Something new, yet something nostalgic and familiar.

Watch the “Something Could Happen” video below:

The debut of the video came at the end of a one-hour special livestreamed on Tuesday night. Journalist David Fricke hosted the special in which he spoke with some of the artists and directors who collaborated with Petty on his most iconic music videos. Check out the special below: