Morgen, who also directed the Kurt Cobain doc Kur t Cobain: Montage of Heck, has reportedly been working on the documentary for the past 4 years and the estate has now revealed that Morgen has unfiltered access to Bowie’s personal archives.
Neon will distribute the film in the US while Universal Pictures Content Group has the international rights to distribute the film. HBO holds all streaming and cable rights and the doc is looking at a HBO Max premiere in 2023.
The film will premiere in May at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, which announced its official line-up this very morning.
Moonage Daydream, which borrows its title from a song featured in Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, is the first film sanctioned by the Bowie estate.
In 2020, Stardust, a biopic starring Johnny Flynn as Bowie, was released to mostly negative reactions and reviews, proving that bringing a music icon to life on screen is harder than it looks. We’ll have a while still before Moonage Daydream hits our screens, so all we can do for now is hope for the best.
