Stardust sprinkled on intimate Bowie movie
DAVID Bowie fans are about to be treated to a feature-length documentary about their hero – complete with unseen footage and a voiceover by the star himself.
Moonage Daydream is directed and produced by American film maker Brett Morgen, who was granted unfiltered access to Bowie’s personal archives, including all his master recordings.
He unearthed hundreds of hours of never-before-seen 35mm and 16mm film and pieced together full performances from them plus mixes of 48 tracks.
The movie – officially sanctioned by the Bowie estate – will reportedly premiere at Cannes next month, then is likely to get a cinema release before a streaming one next year.
It comes after the megastar’s son Duncan Jones ruled out a Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman-style treatment of his dad’s life.
In 2019, he said: “Pretty certain nobody has been granted music rights for ANY biopic. I can’t imagine that changing.
“If you want to see a biopic without his music or the family’s blessing, that’s up to the audience.”
Spiders
His father died from liver cancer on January 10, 2016, when he was 69.
Moonage Daydream is named after a single from Bowie’s fifth album – 1972’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars – which introduced the world to the his alter ego Ziggy.
The movie will examine Bowie’s work across music and film, dance, painting and theatre.
Morgen previously made documentaries about Kurt Cobain and primatologist Jane Goodall.
This time he worked with Bowie’s long-time collaborator, friend and music producer Tony Visconti and Academy Award-winning sound mixer Paul Massey.