Coinciding with what would have been its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this week if not for the current health crisis gripping the globe, Film Constellation has unveiled the first clip from Stardust featuring Johnny Flynn (Emma.) as music icon David Bowie and Marc Maron (GLOW) as his publicist Ron Oberman.
Stardust takes place in 1971, and follows a 24-year-old Bowie as he embarks on his first trip to America and charts the events and inspirations that led to the birth of his alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Check out the first look clip here…
“I set out to make a film about what makes someone become an artist; what actually drives them to make their art,” states director Gabriel Range. “That someone is David Bowie, a man we’re used to thinking about as the star he became, or as one of his alter egos: Ziggy Stardust; Aladdin Zane; The Thin White Duke. Someone I only ever saw at a great distance, behind a mask; a godlike, alien presence. Even in his perfectly choreographed death, he didn’t seem like a regular human being.”
As yet, there’s no word on a potential release date for Stardust, but we’ll keep you posted.
Via Variety