Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will oversee a movie documenting Oasis’s 2025 reunion tour.
Knight is described because the creator of the movie and can produce it, although it’s being directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace.
The pair have pedigree with music documentaries, together with with Oasis’s former arch-rivals Blur – they directed No Distance Left to Run, which documented Blur’s 2009 reunion tour.
In addition to making music movies for Franz Ferninand, Björk and Arctic Monkeys, additionally they directed LCD Soundsystem’s 2012 documentary-concert movie hybrid Shut Up and Play the Hits, then returned to the band’s New York hipster milieu in 2022 for Meet Me within the Lavatory, which documented town’s buzzy 00s indie scene.
The movie is being made by way of manufacturing firm Magna Studios, who’ve produced acclaimed music movies akin to Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now and the Nick Cave docudrama 20,000 Days on Earth.
No additional particulars have been given in regards to the focus of the movie, however Southern and Lovelace’s fashion suggests there can be intimate footage alongside the gig itself. No Distance Left to Run featured frank dialogue of the variations between Blur’s Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon; Shut Up and Play the Hits documented what was billed as LCD Soundsystem’s last gig (the band have since re-formed) but in addition filmed frontman James Murphy the morning after, milling round his flat and changing into emotional as he confronts the top of the group.
Oasis’s tour, entitled Reside ’25, kicks off on 4 July in Cardiff, and can embody 41 gigs throughout the UK, Eire, north and South America, east Asia and Australia, concluding on 23 November in São Paulo. It would convey the regularly warring Gallagher brothers again collectively for the primary time since an acrimonious cut up in 2009.
NME reported this week that sources near the group claimed the complete band lineup could be the brothers plus unique guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, together 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 extra bothered in regards to the line the place it says a supply near the band and tour that basically causes me an excessive amount of concern.” He jokingly wrote his personal lineup, that includes 4 of Oasis’s former drummers.
The tour movie provides one other undertaking to a busy latest slate for Knight, who has been the writer-producer of TV sequence This City, The Veil and A Thousand Blows within the final two years.
He has additionally written and produced The Immortal Man, a movie which continues the Peaky Blinders saga, filmed for Netflix in autumn 2024 with a launch date but to be introduced.
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