Stardust - David Bowie Biopic

[Pennywise]

Couldn’t find a thread for this so I made one.


‘Stardust’: First Look At Johnny Flynn As David Bowie In Music Biopic – Deadline

Here’s a first look at Johnny Flynn (Beast) as the late music icon David Bowie in biopic Stardust.

Set in 1971, the UK film follows a 24 year old Bowie as he embarks on his first road trip to America with struggling publicist Ron Oberman (Marc Maron). During the journey Bowie discovers his alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

Gabriel Range (I Am Slave) directs from a script written by Christopher Bell (Netflix’s The Last Czars). Co-starring are Jena Malone (Nocturnal Animals) as Bowie’s wife Angie and Maron (Joker).

Produced by Paul Van Carter and Nick Taussig of Salon Pictures, the film is being sold globally by Film Constellation. Christopher Figg of Piccadilly Pictures is co-financing.

There’s going to be none of Bowie’s songs in the film, and Duncan Jones is against the project.

 

[DarkKnight88]

There’s going to be none of Bowie’s songs in the film,

And interest completely lost.

 

[Pennywise]

And interest completely lost.

Yeah, it does suck!

 

[Schlosser85]

No Bowie songs in a movie about Bowie, his son is against it, and the guy doesn’t look like Bowie. Pass.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

So who thought that greenlighting a Bowie movie when they can't even use his music in it was a good idea?

 

[terry78]

Somebody who has the rights to everything but his songs.

 

[3rdstone]

Got excited when reading the title of the thread, but then..

Feels kinda pointless making this without Bowie's music. In the Hendrix bio pic a couple of years ago they didn't have the rights to the songs either. That was also quite underwhelming, but we got at least see Andree 3000 (who did a good job IMO) perform live with non-Hendrix songs which still kinda worked for me.

 

[Tg11]

This biopic should have been made the right way with Duncan being involved in the project all the way throughout and him even directing it but also getting an actor who actually looks like Bowie

 

[Dr. Evil]

Why Duncan Jones is not involved with the project is beyond me.

 

[Iceman]

Somebody who has the rights to everything but his songs.

The songs part is kind of important lol.

 

[Vaibow]

just watch velvet goldmine for now...