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The Guardian
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film
Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will oversee a film documenting Oasis's 2025 reunion tour. Knight is described as the creator of the film and will produce it, though it is being directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. The pair have pedigree with music documentaries, including with Oasis's former arch-rivals Blur – they directed No Distance Left to Run, which documented Blur's 2009 reunion tour. As well as making music videos for Franz Ferninand, Björk and Arctic Monkeys, they also directed LCD Soundsystem's 2012 documentary-concert film hybrid Shut Up and Play the Hits, then returned to the band's New York hipster milieu in 2022 for Meet Me in the Bathroom, which documented the city's buzzy 00s indie scene. The film is being made via production company Magna Studios, who have produced acclaimed music films such as Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now and the Nick Cave docudrama 20,000 Days on Earth. No further details have been given about the focus of the film, but Southern and Lovelace's style suggests there will be intimate footage alongside the gig itself. No Distance Left to Run featured frank discussion of the differences between Blur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon; Shut Up and Play the Hits documented what was billed as LCD Soundsystem's final gig (the band have since re-formed) but also filmed frontman James Murphy the morning after, milling around his flat and becoming emotional as he confronts the end of the group. Oasis's tour, entitled Live '25, kicks off on 4 July in Cardiff, and will encompass 41 gigs across the UK, Ireland, north and South America, east Asia and Australia, concluding on 23 November in São Paulo. It will bring the frequently warring Gallagher brothers back together for the first time since an acrimonious split in 2009. NME reported this week that sources close to the group claimed the full band lineup would be the brothers plus original guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, along with Andy Bell (bass), Gem Archer (guitar) and Joey Waronker (drums). An unimpressed Liam Gallagher wrote on X in response: 'It's not the lineup reveal I'm bothered about I'll reveal that to you in a minute I'm more bothered about the line where it says a source close to the band and tour that really causes me a great deal of concern.' He jokingly wrote his own lineup, featuring four of Oasis's former drummers. The tour film adds another project to a busy recent slate for Knight, who has been the writer-producer of TV series This Town, The Veil and A Thousand Blows in the last two years. He has also written and produced The Immortal Man, a film which continues the Peaky Blinders saga, filmed for Netflix in autumn 2024 with a release date yet to be announced.
Reuters
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Benedict Cumberbatch unexpectedly sideswiped by grief in 'Thing With Feathers' drama
BERLIN, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Benedict Cumberbatch was overtaken by grief at unexpected moments while playing a widower in his new family drama "The Thing With Feathers," the British actor said on Tuesday in Berlin. "Odd moments would just sideswipe me," Cumberbatch told journalists about the film, playing in the Berlin Film Festival's non-competitive Special section. He recalled how one scene of his character folding his dead wife's clothes and putting them in a box caught him off guard. "I'm 48. I've been through a bit. I've lived. I've experienced grief," he said. "It just really struck a chord." Cumberbatch stars as the father of two young sons whose wife has unexpectedly died, and he begins to receive visits from a large, otherworldly crow figure that eventually forces the family to confront their grief. Part of the role involved letting go and not trying to control what grief should look like, said Cumberbatch, who made a name for himself by playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Strange. "It sounds perverse when talking about grief, but as far as the artistry of making something feel or look or be real in that moment for a character, you just leave it alone and it happens," he said. The film, which was adapted from the book "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" by Max Porter, is British filmmaker Dylan Southern's debut fiction feature. "I had never read anything like it, it's so dense with kind of profound ideas and character detail, but it's packed into a tiny little novella," Southern told Reuters about the book. The director of documentaries such as "No Distance Left to Run," about the band Blur, said he wanted to capture the experience of grieving with the family that the book conveys. "It was kind of a challenging but really rewarding kind of project to dive into," he said.
